College heads at Oxford and Cambridge have dismissed claims of admissions “bias” while saying that the universities should aim for up to 95 per cent of their students to come from state schools – a huge rise that would slash the proportion of privately educated students.
The leader of Britain’s top private schools has said that “alarm bells” should be ringing over methods to increase state school numbers. New figures show that, for the first time, these students were more likely than ones from private school to be admitted to Cambridge.
Melvyn Roffe, chairman of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, which represents schools including Eton and Winchester, wrote in The Daily Telegraph: “There was a suspicion that school type is being used by universities as
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