How Britain's private schools lost their grip on Oxbridge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The parents see how much it costs them to live in the neighbourhoods they live in and send children to private schools, and they realise that their children will be in the same bind."
53% : "Why the heck would anyone ever pay the thick end of half a million quid (aged 4-18) per child pre-tax to send them to private school if it didn't give them seriously better grades than someone equally bright who went state?" asked one person on Mumsnet, the online parenting forum.
48% : Today, private schools educate 6.5 per cent of UK children, but as recently as five years ago they accounted for 42 per cent of Oxford's domestic intake and 37 per cent at Cambridge.
48% : * grades at A-level, and private schools churned out one of every four of them before the pandemic.
46% : But now the bar has shifted and he didn't," says my friend, a City of London executive who has put several children through elite private schools in Britain.
44% : Of course, not all parents who choose private schools do so expecting their kids will win a top university place.

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