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Thu 05 May 2004Private and grind schools filling most college placesPrivate fee-paying schools and grind schools continue to be the main providers of students to our leading universities, according to the latest feeder school lists obtained by The Irish Times. The lists underline what one Dublin inner-city principal calls the new "educational apartheid" in second-level education, write Seán Flynn and John DownesIncreasingly, it appears that better-off parents are opting for private education and spurning free schools in their area. The private schools which dominate the latest lists all report that demand for places is at record levels.