ABSTRACT
Private schools educate only 7 per cent of the population, their students take up almost half the places at Oxbridge and one-third of the places across the whole Russell Group. The awful truth: to get ahead is, one need a private education. It is official that private schools are a waste of money free school founder, Toby Young argues that the salary premium that allegedly attaches to a private education is more than wiped out by the fees. But the most private schools enjoy superior, and often lavish, resources compared to the majority of state schools. The vast majority of children in private education, including many of the supposed 'disadvantaged' is, those who are in receipt of bursaries and scholarships. Finally this chapter explains that, peple problem is with the fee-paying principle, which leads directly to engines of privilege, blocks relative social mobility and perpetuates a Berlin Wall not just in the education system but in the society.
