Tonybee Swots Up On Social Mobility
POLLY Tonybee is writing about social mobility in the Guardian.
But now with a recession upon us:
But for now, until the blow strikes, the latest figures suggest Labour may be making real social progress
Any evidence, Polly?
True results in social mobility research take a generation, not a decade. But there are hopeful signs. More poor pupils are getting five good GCSEs, thereby outdoing their parents.
These would be the parents, who unless they took the derided GCSE and gave birth soon after 1988, when the GCSE came in, took the GCE, the exam that was harder to pass.
Yeah the sure sign of social mobility – people on the up – is that teenagers are encouraged to take exams that are easier to pass…
Really.
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November 4th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Karen! LOL! Or just from the same humble back-ground as herself! You are absolutely right on that of course!
I often used to laugh at her being from a middle-class family - of errrrrrrr …… shopkeepers!
However - suddenly, everybody thought they had the right to own a Bentley- without working for it!
I had a builder near me who bought a Bentley and a Porsche - just because he could!
No bloody builders in my family had ever had the cash to buy luxury cars before the 80s. lol
November 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Coco
I don’t think Mrs T. was a fan of the class system or the education system - all her beloved yuppie whizz kids were Cockneys on the make who started in the City at 16…
November 4th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Aren’t the Guardian embarrassed to be printing the drivel she comes up with?
November 4th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Social mobility eh? Social mobility!
Now why the fuck would a Labour Government give a flying fuck about social mobility?
Ascending through the eduation system - yes! Having more skills - yes!
But calling it social mobility smacks of ascending through the class system to me - When they should ideally be scrapping the whole system of any kind of classification!
Thatcher started all this nonsense!
I know my place.
And it’s a bugger getting staff! lol