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Today’s classes were born out of the machine age. They are not fit for purpose in 21st century Britain.
Part-time students are some of the most disadvantaged – universities need money to help them.
Top firms play can play an important role in increasing social mobility but narrow recruitment processes mean they are also missing out on great talent.
To make politicians invest more in quality public education, more people need to vote.
The higher education sector must collaborate to reach out to applicants from poor and diverse backgrounds.
Private school graduates earn more and are more likely to get top professional jobs. It has a lot to do with their grades.
By basing their admissions systems on grades, universities are perpetuating social inequality.
A new report shows that hourly wages of workers whose parents had a tertiary degree are significantly higher, on average, than hourly wages of workers whose parents have lesser qualifications.
PM tells local school the future is bright. Probably best not to focus on the past five years.
In some significant ways, Americans have fewer avenues for advancement than the characters of Mad Men do.
The opportunity gap between well-off and poor American children is vast and, more alarmingly still, it is growing. Some political leaders are starting to take note of the grim consequences.
Robert Putnam’s new book aims to make the social inequality a core issue in the 2016 campaign: a member of his research team explains how.
The expansion of higher education in the UK has been driven by a political desire to increase economic growth and to promote social mobility at the same time by drawing more graduates from a larger pool…
As they reach the end of primary school, the UK’s children face persistent inequalities in their cognitive development. New findings from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a survey of children born between…
The number of professional and middle-class managerial jobs has shrunk, according to a new study by researchers at Oxford University. This is bad news for Britain’s graduates and represents a worrying…
Improve the school results of children from poor backgrounds and they will escape poverty in adulthood. This is the way the UK government believes it can alleviate child poverty, built on a belief in the…
University is often seen as a route to social mobility, providing the chance for all students to get higher status and better paid jobs no matter what kind of school they went to. But in our new research…
Britain is quickly turning into a nation characterised by an obscene and unsustainable wealth gap, according to a new report on social mobility. Yet behind the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s…
Although the broader economy might be starting to look up, the prospects for social mobility in the UK are not. The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has just released its State of the Nation…
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Professor of Education, Jesus College, University of Cambridge
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Reader in Public Policy, University of Bath
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Professor of Epidemiology, University of York
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Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Organization Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor of Economic and Social Policy, University of Bath
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Professor, College of Business, Government & Law, Flinders University
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University