The percentage of students from poor backgrounds going to the country’s leading universities has dramatically fallen in recent decades.

GCSEs, being the bridge to A-levels, means the path to the elite universities is becoming more competitive than ever before; an academic domino effect.
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New GCSEs brought in this summer were the most challenging exams seen in home schools in over three decades education leaders claim; and GCSEs, being the bridge to A-levels, means the path to the elite universities is becoming more competitive than ever before.

According to a Department for Education spokesperson: “The new GCSEs will provide more rigorous content and the new grading system provides greater stretch for the highest performers…‎ These changes will help young people ‎to compete with the best in the world and deliver the skills that employers tell us they need”.

It is believed that throughout England, children with professional parents are more likely to attend a top Russell Group university than those from working-class homes.

According to a recent report, around 73 per cent of this gap was due to the fact that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve lower results at A-level.

England’s top state secondary schools are fast becoming the preserve of the middle classes who can afford to live in catchment areas, researchers added, as children across the country received catastrophic results.

Poorer GCSE results ineluctably impact A-levels and, consequently, university degrees; an academic domino effect.

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