Only 33% of the disadvantaged group took one or more A-levels in the so-called "facilitating subjects" favoured by universities, such as maths, English, the sciences, humanities and modern languages, compared with 58% of their better-advantaged peers.
This is becoming an increasingly important part of the university admissions process as data collection and analysis improve and evidence emerges that students from disadvantaged backgrounds often do better than more advantaged peers with the same entry qualifications.
In 2001, Mr. Descoings, 52, who cheerfully admits that he failed the concours twice before passing, began his own outreach program to better prepare less-advantaged students for Sciences Po.
While this study has adjusted for possession of private health insurance, the prevalence of which increases with increasing social advantage, more advantaged groups are also better able to pay for procedures in the private sector, as and when necessary [ 20].
Opinion divides on the size of the inequalities which would, as a matter of empirical fact, be allowed by the Difference Principle, and on how much better off the least advantaged would be under the Difference Principle than under a strict equality principle.
It basically requires that a society is to institute the economic system that would make the least advantaged class better off than they would be in any other feasible economic system, compatible with maintaining citizens equal basic liberties and fair equality of opportunity.
A few studies have examined socio-demographic and socio-economic factors in the uptake of ANC in Nepal [ 12, 18], finding that better educated or economically advantaged women are more likely to receive ANC.
Pregnancy mental health appears to be better among the most advantaged women who have greater capacity to access health services, but probably also greater personal confidence and maturity and more secure economic circumstances and housing.
Chancellor Joel I. Klein has tried to rejigger the testing system to be more fair, with uniform cut-offs citywide and better outreach to less-advantaged areas.
The results confirmed that a high socio-economic status has a significant and positive effect on student achievement: compared with students from socio-economic disadvantaged schools, students from advantaged schools performed better in mathematics achievement.
