Social mobility

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  UK has more graduates but without skills and social mobility to match

  9 Sep 2014: Report by OECD notes UK's 'quantum leap' in higher education access but highlights poor literacy and numeracy figures

• Kipper Williams on UK becoming Downton Abbey-style society

  9 Sep 2014: TUC chief says Britain risks being a nastier and poorer place as social mobility reverses and privilege is entrenched
  

• The pay gap between men and women in the same occupation – interactive

  9 Sep 2014: Interactive – The gender pay gap over time for jobs ranging from labourers to CEOs

• David Lammy's mayoral move will enhance debate about London's future

  5 Sep 2014: The Tottenham MP is being criticised by some for jumping the gun, but it is good that his voice will be better heard
  

• Tory party needs more people who have worked in Morrisons, says minister

  3 Sep 2014:

  Conservatives' message on social mobility has been diluted, warns Justine Greening as she sounds election warning

• Elitism and a skewed view of Britain’s diversity

  29 Aug 2014: Letters: Only the abolition of private schooling and decent state education can bring about genuine equality of opportunity and meritocracy as the most progressive European nations demonstrate

• I want my rulers chosen on merit, but care more about how they rule

  28 Aug 2014: Simon Jenkins: The distribution of power, rather than its social makeup, is what counts. Only a constitutional revolution can dent the great British establishment

• The Guardian view on Britain’s expensively educated elite

  28 Aug 2014: Editorial: Too many judges, colonels and columnists are expensively educated. But the problem won’t be fixed until the wealth gap is addressed

• Elitism in Britain - breakdown by profession

  28 Aug 2014: A government report has likened elitism in Britain to “social engineering”. Find out the profession with the highest proportion of its members educated at private school

• Top of British society is a racket for the privileged

  28 Aug 2014: Owen Jones: Statistics should provoke Britain's media into prolonged period of self-reflection. They probably won't since 54% of top 100 media professionals went to private schools

• Closed shop at the top in deeply elitist Britain, says study

  28 Aug 2014: Elitism so embedded in Britain that it could be called social engineering, social mobility commission concludes

• The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain

  26 Aug 2014:

  In an exclusive extract from his new book, Owen Jones explains how the political, social and business elites have a stranglehold on the country

• From the archive, 25 August 1979: What Auberon Waugh thinks about Blackpool

  25 Aug 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 25 August 1979: Concluding our series on the holiday haunts of distinguished writers, Auberon Waugh remembers the impact of Blackpool

• Number of women and students from deprived areas off to university hit high

  15 Aug 2014: Ucas figures show total number of people going to university could top half a million for first time, despite shrinking demographic

• Social mobility in higher education: who does it better, Australia or the UK?

  Guardian Professional, 16 Jul 2014:

  Despite the sector's expansion in both countries, some groups of disadvantaged students still struggle to get to university

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