'Top Lancashire grammar school gave me chances I'd never get in Preston'

She's part of an organisation devoted to helping children from state schools overcome the old boys' network and get into top jobs.

And speaking to The Northern Agenda podcast, she said the advantages she got from the experience at the school one hour's drive away "really show the problem with our education system and how broken it is".

"It was all to do with opportunity. So there's definitely a lot of opportunity lacking and that's something that I want to address personally, because I feel like I have benefited from the system. Some 16.2% of the population in Preston was income-deprived in 2019, according to recent statistics, making it the 55th most income-deprived area in the country.

State school pupils make up 93% of the country but a much smaller proportion of some of our top professions, with just 34% of FTSE 350 CEOs and 35% of senior judges not educated privately. "So by getting in, it's getting into the industries that you want to be in, getting those jobs initially, which comes from having the connections to ask questions, to pass things like assessment centers, interviews, all of those things.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

Interestingly I know a number of children who attended this school who got fairly mediocre GCSE results bearing in mind they had the ability to pass the selective entrance exam and probably would have achieved better results in a number of Lancs’s comprehensive state schools!

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