article_snippet: Bright children from poor backgrounds are half as likely as Bright children from poor backgrounds richer peers to succeed in tougher A-level subjects, a study shows.
article_snippet: Researchers found those from disadvantaged families were far less likely to study and score highly in English, maths, science, humanities and languages.
article_snippet: Pupils who do not take these
article_snippet: so-called ‘facilitating’ subjects have less chance of obtaining a place at the prestigious Russell Group universities, which often favour facilitating’ subjects.
article_snippet: Bright children from poor backgrounds are half as likely as Bright children from poor backgrounds richer peers to succeed in tougher A-level subjects, a study shows (file picture)
article_snippet: Researchers commissioned by the Department of Education at Oxford University also found poor children are much less likely to get three A-levels in any courses.
article_snippet: Researchers found that just a third of bright but disadvantaged students took one of more A-levels facilitating subjects, compared to 58 per cent of Researchers wealthier peers with the same academic ability.
article_snippet: Less than a fifth of the poor students followed gained at least a B in these subjects, compared to 41 per cent of these subjects advantaged classmates.
article_snippet: The findings also show that just over 35 per cent of the sixth-formers identified as clever based on their test results at age 11 got three A-levels in any subjects, compared to 60 per cent of their high-achieving, richer peers.
article_snippet: Less than a fifth of the poor students followed gained at least a B in these subjects, compared to 41 per cent of these subjects advantaged classmates (file picture)
article_snippet: Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust which commissioned the report, said: ‘The fact that bright disadvantaged students fall so far behind when bright disadvantaged students reach bright disadvantaged students A-levels shows that government and schools urgently need to do more to support able students from less advantaged homes.
highlights_snippet: Disadvantaged pupils less likely to score well in science and humanities .
  
highlights_snippet: Pupils who do not study these less likely to go to Russell Group university .
  