Rains Continued To Lash Several Parts Of Chennai

In the CHENNAI city and suburbs were struggling to come back to normality as rains continued to lash several parts of Chennai, or because the aftermath of the previous days' showers was too severe for residents to cope with.With the rains playing hide-and-seek most of Sunday, it dampened weekend plans for many. Schools in Chennai, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts, get extended holidays with Monday also being declared closed.

While some waited to see if the civic body's team would pump out excess water from their area, many such as P. Karunakaran, a resident of Poonamallee, Senneerkuppam, sent his children to his relative's place as there were no signs of water receding. In many localities such as Raja Street, near Pondy Bazaar, the vinyl board kept as barricade around incomplete storm water drains went missing with the strong winds and rains. The median on the Rajiv Gandhi Salai, near the Lifeline Hospital junction was also not to be seen as rain water clogged the stretch.

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Five top schools send more students to Oxbridge than 2,000 schools combined

POSH pupils from just five private schools take more places at Oxford and Cambridge universities than Britain’s bottom 2,000 state schools combined, research reveals today.

The report by the Sutton Trust also reveals that private school students are more than twice as likely to get into the top 30 universities than comprehensive pupils.

Elite schools charging as much as £30,000 a year, such as Eton College where Prime Minister David Cameron was educated, and St Paul’s where Chancellor George Osborne was taught, are in the five.

Eton, Westminster School, St Paul’s School and St Paul’s Girls School – all private – and Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge produced 946 Oxbridge entrants from 2007-09 – one in 20 of all the students.

Meanwhile, 2,000 other schools and colleges produced a total of 927 students.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust, said: “We know these stark inequalities are driven primarily by the exam results, yet the data also reveals that university chances can vary dramatically for schools with similar average grades.”

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