Working-class students more often lack the advice, guidance and support needed to navigate the tricky application process, whereas their wealthy peers at top public schools have admissions tutors to help their students game the system.
My mum didn't understand that education was an important thing. She couldn't do my homework with me. I was helping her read stuff. She once brought shaving soap thinking it was whipped cream.
I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.
We can't have children growing up feeling unloved - the price is too high for that.
Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.
The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.
