The Sutton Trust says there should be a better system for providing financial assistance to students wanting to stay on for postgraduate courses.
Yet, as the Sutton Trust has pointed out, it is done in other countries, including parts of the USA, Sweden, and New Zealand.
To be fair, the Sutton Trust acknowledges most of these provisos.
But given that Peter Lampl, who founded the Sutton Trust, advises David Blunkett, the education secretary, on university access, this research could indeed herald a change in policy.
Research for the Sutton Trust found 77% of those aged 11 to 16 thought it likely they would go on to higher education, up from 72% in 2008.
The report was commissioned by the Sutton Trust educational charity.
The analysis follows a series of reports the Sutton Trust has published on school and university backgrounds of those in leading professions, including national news journalists, judges and MPs.
Studies by the Sutton Trust, a charity, show that summer schools are particularly effective at enticing clever pupils who would otherwise shy away from applying to an elite establishment.
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of Sutton Trust, which promotes social mobility through education, said the research revealed "a group of bright students who need extra support and encouragement to make the right decisions".
At a conference organised by the Sutton Trust, which promotes educational opportunities for young people from underprivileged backgrounds, Mr Clegg called for "a more dynamic society: one where what matters most is the person you become, not the person you were born".
The same proportion of MPs - 43% - attended one of the top 13 universities which the Sutton Trust says have the highest average ranking in newspaper league tables: Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Imperial, LSE, Nottingham, Oxford, St Andrew's, UCL, Warwick, York.
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Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of education charity Sutton Trust, welcomed the guide, adding that he hoped it would help "bright non-privileged students in particular, who all too often do not receive the support and guidance they need at this key juncture in their lives".
Barry Sindall, chief executive of the Grammar School Heads Association, quoted from a 2008 Sutton Trust study which suggested that the social make-up of grammar schools was often more diverse than that of the top 100 comprehensives where entrance is decided on proximity to the school, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer families.
The trust runs King's Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield, and Newark Hospital.
The Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust runs King's Mill Hospital, in Sutton-In-Ashfield, and Newark Hospital.
The current trust is made up of Epsom, St Helier and Sutton hospitals, and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children.
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