further access to information needs to be complemented with support to parents on how to interpret the information and how to select the most appropriate school for their children information could be made available in selected foreign languages and be accessible to parents with limited literacy oecd ii this involves the ability to make an informed choice about what an individual does not want as well as about what one likes and needs the value of choice is highly connected with certain groups in society such as middleclass parents allen reay and allen there is a need to manage student intake according to socioeconomic status and nonselective intake criteria oecd this requires ensuring that equity criteria are adopted for schools to prioritise disadvantaged students or that funding arrangements make disadvantaged students more attractive to highperforming schools oecd