Lampl founded the Sutton Trust "to improve educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds and increase social mobility."

Sutton Trust report 2009 cited it as the only state school in the region reliably to do so year after year.

But the subjects offered and the information and guidance given to students are also likely to be to blame in many cases, according to the Sutton Trust.

Among students who attended summer schools run by the Sutton Trust, 76% gained places at leading universities, according to a report from the education charity.

The earning gap which the Sutton Trust rightly flags up is, of course, only one part of the story.

The Sutton Trust recently looked into this.

This month the Sutton Trust published research showing wide variations in the numbers getting into elite universities among schools with similar results.

The guide was used by the Sutton Trust as part of their summer school program for helping British students apply to US universities.

The Sutton Trust also says the government's approach of requiring matched funding from universities could penalise those with the highest share of poor students.

The Sutton Trust have reported that some comprehensives are more selective than grammar schools!