Social class

• Working class underachievement 


  Working class students are more likely to

  • four behind in reading writing and maths
  • Be placed in lower sets or streams
  • Get a few GCSEs or lower grades
  • Leave school at the age of 16
• External factors on educational achievement

  • Private education
  • Material deprivation
  • Cultural deprivation
  • Cultural and social capital
• Roderio and Zanini (2015)

  Cambridge university study that found that despite social class disparities in university admissions , state school students are more likely to gain a first class degree than independent school students with similar a level results
• By the time they reach 16 how far ahead are private school students compared to state school students

  2 years
• what do critics of private education claim?

  Private schools undermine equality of opportunity because the statistics suggest that the products of these schools experience positive discrimination in terms of job allocation