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SUMMARY:Education Policy Series: Seminar with Lee Elliot Major\, Sutton Tr
 ust - Dr Lee Elliot Major\, Sutton Trust
DTSTART:20151009T130000Z
DTEND:20151009T150000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:Why is it that a talented child from a poorer background is le
 ss likely in Britain to climb the social ladder? Low social mobility and l
 ack of educational opportunity is arguably the biggest social challenge of
  our times.\n\nThe income gap between the richest and poorest in society c
 ontinues to widen\, while education opportunities remain overwhelmingly do
 minated by the most privileged. Every university-educated English-born Pri
 me Minister since the war went to one university: Oxford. Another Trust st
 udy found that four private schools and one elite college sent more studen
 ts to Oxbridge over three years than 2\,000 schools and colleges across th
 e UK.\n\nBut what can we do about it? This lecture will focus on the role 
 of education in improving social mobility\, and preventing the subsequent 
 waste of talent it causes.\n\n*Dr Lee Elliot Major* is Chief Executive of 
 the Sutton Trust\, previously overseeing its research work. He is a foundi
 ng trustee of the Education Endowment Foundation. He writes and speaks reg
 ularly in the national media on social mobility and education issues\, and
  was formerly an education journalist working for the Guardian and Times H
 igher Education Supplement. He was the first in his family to attend unive
 rsity.
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room 2S8
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