New figures from the Sutton Trust, a social mobility charity, also show that the number of Oxbridge graduates teaching in state secondary schools has almost doubled in the last 12 years – from around 6,000 to around 11,000.
However, the analysis shows that teachers in independent secondary schools are three times more likely to have an Oxbridge subject degree than their state school counterparts – and are also more likely to hold PhD and Master’s qualifications.
Independent teachers are also more likely than state teachers to have post-graduate qualifications relevant to the subjects that they teach, especially in the shortage subjects of physics and maths.
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