First attempts at creating something of this length and depth.


Broadly:
Part 1: Social Reproduction & thinking
Part 2: UK election 2019, 18-24 (dis)engagement
Part 3: Educational divides in democracy & the importance of knowledge?
Part 4: "So you think you're better than us?" - Conclusion


Details:

For example, Widening Participation data in UK Higher Education from December 2019 (DfE 2019) show that in relative terms, poorer Londoners are more likely to go to university than more affluent young people in every region outside of London. That is, 48% of Free School Meal eligible pupils at age 15 in Inner London went on to Higher Education by age 19 compared to 18% in the South East and South West (p. 5);
2) Those from BAME backgrounds are far more likely to go to university: e.g. 67% of black African female pupils eligible for FSM progress to HE, but only 13% of white British male FSM pupils;
3) While poorer pupils are going to university, they're not getting into the high tariff providers often associated with better graduate outcomes - e.g. only 2% of poor pupils from the NE, E and E.Midlands get into top unis, compared to 6% of poor pupils in London and 13% of wealthier Londoners.


Age, race, class: the younger you are in Britain today, the more likely you are to be working class by any useful definition: lower (and falling wages), insecure work, no assets owned. Significantly, BME groups are younger than white groups:

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-population-by-ethnicity/demographics/age-groups/latest

Tom Sperlinger - University participation is a major issue for democracy (2017): https://policybristol.blogs.bris.ac.uk/2017/02/14/trump-brexit-and-a-crisis-of-participation-in-universities/




Works acknowledged/cited:

Apple, M. (1990). The Text and Cultural Politics. The Journal of Educational Thought (JET) / Revue De La Pensée Éducative. 24(3A), 17-33. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/23768190

Department for Education DfE (2019). Widening Participation data in UK Higher Education 2017/19

Friedman, S. (2014). The Price of The Ticket: Rethinking The Experience of Social Mobility

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