‘Easier’ exams offered by private schools smooth pupils’ entry to top universities

Russell Group members admit they treat less-rigorous IGCSEs the same as new, harder GCSEsTop universities are giving privately educated children an unfair advantage by not differentiating between the rigorous GCSEs compulsory in the state system and less demanding exams taken in many fee-paying schools, MPs and educationists have said.Just days after GCSE results day last Thursday, Freedom of Information (FoI) requests by Labour MP Lucy Powell show that almost all Russell Group universities trea