Comments on: Improving social mobility starts with reducing inequality

By: robertcp

robertcp — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:19:00 +0000

I went to university in the 1980s but going to university in the 1920s was not an option for my working class grandfather. Another example is that Nye Bevan and Ernest Bevin would clearly have gone to university if they had been born later. These examples suggest to me that social mobility increased dramatically in the middle years of the twentieth century. Of course, the number of professional posts was a factor but so were increased educational opportunities and reduced inequality. These trends reversed from the 1980s onwards.
Another factor in reduced social mobility might be less comfortable for people on the left to discuss. The children of people who rose up the social classes are now middle class, while working class children now have parents or grandparents that failed to take advantage of the social mobility of the last century. In other words, the equivalents of Bevan and Bevin stopped being working class in the 1970s and 1980s.

By: robertcp

robertcp — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:19:00 +0000

By: swatnan

swatnan — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:19:00 +0000

Bring back the EMA!

By: Linda Breeze

Linda Breeze — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:12:00 +0000

I have seen Alan Milburn talking to Andrew Neil on Politics Show. He said that student’s allowance has to pay for children’s education and keep them in schools. Students needs money to keep them in education in Colleges etc. It does not make sense as it is unequality for students.