Nadhim Zahawi said school admissions ‘should be based on merit and evidence’
Britain should be ‘very proud’ of its private school system, the Education Secretary has said as he rejected the idea that elite universities like Oxford and Cambridge should ‘tilt the system’ to accept more state school pupils.
Professor Toope said the university would be ‘welcoming others’ rather than telling students from private schools ‘we don’t want you’. ‘You don’t create a system that people feel is fair and equitable by in some way thinking that there is an easy fix. The best thing you can do is create schools in the state system that are as good as independent schools. Which we are.
‘If we do that, and I can demonstrate for the next two and a half years I’ve done my job properly, then we’ll have made a real difference to the lives of children up and down the country.’
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