Social mobility

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• Poverty and class: the latest themes to enter the US banned-books debate

  21 Oct 2014: Mary O’Hara: Sex and religion have long vexed self-appointed guardians of US school and library reading habits, but now objectors are trying to add social inequality to their list of unacceptable topics

• Government urged to spend £250m to help good parenting

  20 Oct 2014: Social mobility commission chair lambasts lack of child poverty targets and warns that absolute poverty is on the rise in UK

• Where have all the working-class actors gone?

  20 Oct 2014: Alex Andreou: Funding cuts, a bourgeois industry, and a glut of middle- and upper-class parts might explain why it’s harder than ever for the non-wealthy to make a career in the theatre

• Alan Milburn delivers broadside against main parties’ policies on poverty

  19 Oct 2014: Social mobility commission says coalition plan to raise personal tax allowance and Labour minimum wage pledge are ineffective

• Social mobility has stalled, but Labour wants equal opportunities for all

  19 Oct 2014: Gloria De Piero: There should be room at the top for everyone with talent regardless of background. We want to find out what’s gone wrong and why

• Under-30s being priced out of the UK, says social mobility tsar

  19 Oct 2014: Mobility tsar says Britain is on verge of being permanently divided between haves and have-nots as young miss out on recovery, writes Daniel Boffey

• Growing wealth inequality in the UK is a ticking timebomb

  15 Oct 2014: Danny Dorling: Credit Suisse has predicted a 40% rise in wealth in just five years, but this can’t happen without repercussions. Is another crash on its way?

• A poor pupil at Oxbridge: is it less likely than Pope Bono?

  14 Oct 2014: The odds on disadvantaged children getting into elite universities are shocking – offers should now reflect a student’s background, says Patrick McGhee

• Russell Brand: what monkeys and the Queen taught me about inequality

  13 Oct 2014: Russell Brand: We humans have an inherent sense of fairness. Deep down, we don’t like inequality. How can we start to build a more just world?

• Julia Hobsbawm: ‘I’m interested in social mobility, and I think there is a stuckness going on’

  10 Oct 2014: Julia Hobsbawm knows all about networks. The former PR, and daughter of a famous Marxist, teaches and makes radio shows about them. But is it right to revel in who you know? Zoe Williams takes her on

• Let’s fight the idea that high tuition fees are inevitable

  7 Oct 2014: A lack of political will to tackle high fees – or widen participation – shows the shrivelling vision of higher education’s possibilities, says Peter Scott

• Too many schools fail pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, says report

  6 Oct 2014: Raising performance to half that of best schools in England would have given 60,000 more children good GCSEs last year

• All David Cameron has left now is abuse

  4 Oct 2014: Tristram Hunt: The prime minister’s attack on me was cheap and unworthy of his office

• Privilege: that’s the only area where private schools excel

  2 Oct 2014: Lola Okolosie: Sorry Lady Morgan, but on social mobility and academic progress the independent sector has nothing to teach state schools

• Raising a din over private school abuses

  24 Sep 2014: Letters: Rather than debating the peripheral issues of elite education we should concentrate on the real issues such as the sexual, physical and emotional abuse perpetrated in private schools

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