"Graduates hit by £7.4bn stealth tax on student loans"
New post out:
"The gap that never closes"
I've spent much of my career trying to reduce the rich/poor gap in education.
Nothing's worked.
Which has led me to the conclusion that we're thinking about inequality the wrong way...
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open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Last week we got new data on union membership, and for our Chart of the week we've taken a closer look.
Union membership has declined over the past decades, but the latest data hints that this decline might be slowing
Read Top of the charts 👉 buff.ly/9JCInp0
Jim Dickinson
Sam Freedman
Graduates who grew up in deep poverty face a large pay gap 10 years into their careers.
They earn 13 per cent less than graduates who did not grow up in poverty – equivalent to over £7,590 a year, and larger than the gender pay gap in the UK ⤵️ buff.ly/5VfX2Fi
Last week on Wonkhe: As universities are again urged to provide support to struggling students, Jim Dickinson reviews the evidence - and finds our system of rapid graduate production a key potential cause of pressure and harm
NEW on Wonkhe: Debbie McVitty reads the runes for the academic year ahead and wonders whether this will be the year that the Westminster government grasps the nettle on making higher education policy buff.ly/wmeycUk
Resolution Foundation
🗨️ "A survey by the Sutton Trust published in March found 41% of primary and secondary school leaders believe some schools actively discourage applications from pupils with SEND."
Great to see our research cited in an important BBC News piece on SEND 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
As universities are again urged to provide support to struggling students, Jim Dickinson reviews the evidence - and finds our system of rapid graduate production a key potential cause of pressure and...
NEW on Wonkhe: As funding pressures mount, Jim Dickinson argues that Scotland’s celebrated model of student partnership is no longer enough - and students now need real, enforceable protections buff.ly/kt9nNX4
The Sutton Trust
tefsinfo.org/2025/06/16/c...
Wonkhe
Too many pundits have characterised university students as ‘snowflakes’. Now, data from the latest Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey, out last week, surely debunks this false image.&nbs…
Recent years have brought a steady and relentless criticism of the value of a university education that deliberately aims to deter would-be students and direct them toward skills-based technical ed…
