John Clare, Education Editor at the Daily Telegraph answers a question about the progress Independent pupils make when they move onto University.

Specifically, whether "state school pupils really tend to do better at university than those who went to independent schools?

There is some evidence that it is so - which has encouraged some universities to discriminate in favour of state school applicants - but it came from research that assumed all universities and courses were equally demanding, which is absurd.

By contrast, a new study by three Oxford dons comparing the degree performance over the past 30 years of state and independent school pupils who entered Oxford and Cambridge with the same A-level scores found no significant difference between them.