The Sutton Trust, a social mobility charity, has helped 24 UK students successfully enrol at Harvard over the past decadePrivate school students are turning their backs on Oxbridge, with as many as one in five now heading to Ivy League universities in the US, headteachers have told The Times. This year Eton College is sending around a fifth of its leavers — more than 50 pupils in total — to American universities. SponsoredOther private school heads said their pupils felt disillusioned at their chances of being accepted at Oxford and Cambridge because of universities’ focus on increasing the number of state school admissions. They added that some British universities appeared to be reluctant to resume full programmes of face-to-face teaching because of the pandemic, and their pupils “want more for their money”. Competition intensifies every year for Oxford and Cambridge, both of which

Source: The Times August 12, 2022 09:30 UTC