The UK, like a lot of places, goes through tremendous efforts to encourage students from some of the top universities in the world to enter a career in teaching at state schools (in every other country known as public and, this time anyway, it has worked.

Over the last twelve years, the number of students from either Oxford or Cambridge (the top two universities in the UK) working as teachers has nearly doubled, and the profession is the most common career for all Oxford graduates.

While this is all a good thing, the evidence still shows that teachers from these schools are more than 3 times as likely to work in an independent school than a state run school, although the gap between the two has lessened.

The UK has introduced a number of benefits for skilled people to become teachers, including higher wages, bursaries for their university training and more. All of this has seen a marked increase in the number of students from top universities becoming teachers.