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SUMMARY:Social Mobility and Education - Professor Anna Vignoles
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CONTACT:Karen Hasin-Bromley
DESCRIPTION:Governments around the world aspire to create socially mobile 
 societies in which each individual\, regardless of social background\, has
  an equal chance of realising their potential. Certainly this is a goal th
 at successive UK governments have subscribed to. The question is how to ac
 hieve this? The role of education as a potential driver of social mobility
  has long been accepted and much policy effort has been focused on improvi
 ng the educational outcomes of the most disadvantaged students. Yet in the
  UK\, as indeed in most countries\, educational achievement still varies d
 ramatically by socio-economic background. In this lecture Professor Vignol
 es will ask whether education really is an agent for social mobility and p
 resent evidence on the trajectories of primary school children from lower 
 and higher socio-economic status families across their entire education ca
 reer\, right through to university. She will consider the role of the educ
 ation system in narrowing the socio-economic gap in education achievement 
 and discuss how socio-economic background continues to influence economic 
 outcomes when students\, even graduates\, leave the education system. \n\n
 This lecture is free and open to interested researchers  in the social sci
 ences.\nThere will be a  drinks reception afterwards.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Law\, Room LG19\, Sidgwick Site
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