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Lee Elliot Major: A world-class education should not be the preserve of the privileged few
17 June 2015
Lee Elliot Major wrote to the Daily Telegraph in response to an article on social mobility.
James Bartholomew (Comment, June 16) is wrong to assert that Britain’s poor level of social mobility is simply an “underclass problem”. In fact, it affects those on middle incomes as well as the poorest in the country.
Our research shows that access to the best schools rises in line with income, with pupils from more advantaged homes twice as likely to go to the best comprehensives, and much more likely to go to grammar and private schools. This helps explain why they are nine times as likely to attend the most selective universities as their poorer peers.
So, while more young people are going to university than before, access at the most elite level is still largely the preserve of the privileged few.
Read the letter on the Telegraph website here.
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