Somewhere, right now, a 17-year-old is afraid to tell her family she wants to go to university. That would be the education secretary, Damian Hinds, by the way, who studied at Oxford University, 153 miles away from his hometown near Manchester. ‘End education snobbery. The ex-head of Harrow who now offers advice on plumbing and hairdressing Read moreA world in which rich kids do degrees and poor kids do apprenticeships is not a world of parity. Around a third who attend university earn less than their counterparts who don’t, though much is related to the subject.

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2018 06:46 UTC