About half of this gap is due to the location of high attaining schools in catchment areas with lower numbers of disadvantaged pupils, but the rest is due to social selection in admissions occurring even within those neighbourhoods. (suttontrust.com)
«But what happens in most European systems is that academic selection becomes social selection. (bbc.co.uk)
«It shows that a kind of social selection can operate in humans, whereby people inherit status and the reproductive advantage that goes along with that,» he says. (discovermagazine.com)