There are enough barriers to social mobility as it is without pressuring parents into paying for expensive school trips
We need to ask some very hard questions about what does – and doesn’t – make a difference in our schools
It isn’t only genes or property that get passed from generation to generation. More important than either of those are values.
Communities become more conducive to social mobility when the poor live side by side with those in the middle of the income range
At the heart of the debate about the economy is the persistent and worrying problem of restricted social mobility.
Not too hot, not too cold: the Mayor only intervenes when the temperature, and the topic, are just right.
It’s a scandal that of the 4.7 million on low wages in 2002, only 800,000 had escaped ten years later.
Most means of tackling poverty involve leaving people alone to make their own decisions about how to earn money – and providing an infrastructure to support their decisions where necessary.
Modern centre-right politicians should focus on the cost of living, the housing crisis, worklessness, lack of educational attainment, poor quality childcare and welfare dependency.
Politicians refuse to acknowledge that, in a meritocratic society, average ability levels will come to differ between children born into different social classes.
It isn’t social class, but political class. And by the way, the grip of Eton and the public schools on the Tories is getting weaker, not stronger.
Among seven-year-olds in 2012, 24 per cent of free school meal recipients did not reach the expected level in reading, versus 10 per cent of their better off peers.
We are rich! Well, some of us are. The Guardian reports that millionaires are rather more common than one might think: “One British household in every 10 now has total assets exceeding £1m, according to a new book based on work at the London School of Economics published on Wednesday. “Wealth in the UK crunched […]
Young people need to be rounded, confident and resilient to get ahead in the workplace – that matters just as much as GCSEs.