One immediately recognizes that Ivy style is a nexus of converging influences, all of which reinforce an unspoken ideal of ruling-class privilege.

WSJ: Ivy Style | Museum at FIT | Dress Codes | By Laura Jacobs

It's a quirky fiction - fuelled by the British preoccupation with class, privilege and elitism, and by shared anxieties about inequality, exclusion and the function of education.

BBC: A Point of View: The Oxbridge interview

David Willetts, the universities minister, argues that grammar schools entrench privilege because middle-class parents now prepare their children so well for the entrance exams that clever children who have not been coached do not pass.

ECONOMIST: Grammar schools