An article in Monday’s Times by Alexandra Frean contained the following:
“Last year 38 per cent of students achieving straight As at A level were at fee-paying schools, compared to 28 per cent at comprehensives and 16 per cent at grammar schools”
Since that adds up to 82% my first reaction was “Not Again! When will journalists, subs, revise editors, the lot of them, start to be as pernickety about percentages as they are about apostrophes? !!!****”
But other information given in the article made me think that in this particular case all those concerned did know which way up they were
So then the question becomes what are these institutions which produce 18% of students who get straight As at A level?
The answer presumably is sixth form or FE colleges
