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Elite Universities - Working Class Students

Thinking Allowed

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The Lives of Working Class Academics, Getting Ideas Above Your Station

The Lives of Working Class Academics, Getting Ideas Above Your Station features 14 essays by working class academic in higher education. The editor is Iona Bernal-Riley, senior lecturer in the School of Education at the University of East London. Until World War II, university education was the preserver very small elite, less than 2%. And among women, the percentage was less than 0.5 per cent.

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