Social mobility

Are you of the Pemberley Darcys? Same ‘elite’ surnames have been at Oxbridge since the Norman Conquest /”social mobility is not much better than it was in medieval times”

By Ralph Turchiano on October 30, 2013

Names like Darcy, Mandeville and Neville have attended elite universities for 27 generations Tom Mendelsohn Wednesday, 30 October 2013 The same elite names have dominated Oxbridge as far back as the Norman Conquest– and there’s no sign that they’re about… Read More ›

Social mobility report: Work ‘may be no route out of poverty’

By Ralph Turchiano on October 16, 2013 • ( 1 )

Alan Milburn is producing a series of reports on social mobility for the coalition For millions of families, work no longer pays enough to provide a route out of poverty, the government’s social mobility tsar is expected to warn…. Read More ›