Sentence examples for comprehensive pupil from inspiring English sources

Bernard Barker was the first comprehensive pupil to become head of a comprehensive school.

I never knew of its existence while I was at school and it would have been unimaginable for a Welsh comprehensive pupil to apply for such an apparently decorative discipline.

Andy Burnham, the party's education spokesman and former comprehensive pupil, blames the current government for setting schools and communities in competition with each other, and for fragmenting and segregating the entire education system.

· Gordon Brown may have to wait a long time for an honorary degree from Oxford - the quads are still bristling with resentment about his attacks over Laura Spence, the Tyneside comprehensive pupil denied a place at Magdalen College, who went off to Harvard.

She said Jack, an Oakdale Comprehensive pupil, was "missed by us all", and a "very happy, intelligent, fun-loving young man," who was a hero to his younger brother Owain, 13.

The research also found that comprehensive pupils with equivalent grades were less likely to drop out, failing to complete their degrees.

A campaign called the Maintained Sector History of Art Project, launched with a lunch at Sotheby's (where else?), sought to correct the situation by inviting comprehensive pupils to join classes at public schools, like Victorian urchins being given charity.

Lee Elliot Major, research director at the Sutton Trust, said: "Independent and grammar school pupils are getting lots of support – they're being pushed to their limits, whereas with comprehensive pupils they aren't fulfilling their full potential, and this shows up at degree, where they fly.

The research also shows that comprehensive pupils do better than grammar or private school pupils with the same A-level results in degrees awarded by the most academically selective universities, even though the intake of these institutions is dominated by privately educated teenagers.

This was all a far cry from the world of Glasgow Girls, an inspiring BBC3 musical drama based on the true story of a bunch of ordinary comprehensive pupils who fought the Home Office to prevent their schoolfriend Agnesa and her refugee family being deported to Kosovo in 2005.

Moreover, when it comes to the wonders that only the comprehensive pupils can do for their sport, consider this: would all those people be descending on Halfords to buy racing bikes if Bradley Wiggins had been to Harrow, rather than St Augustine's, Kilburn?