Opening up opportunity: social mobility and the Higher Education and Research Act (2017)

In her inaugural speech, Prime Minister Theresa May stood outside the door to Number 10 and spoke profusely about her mission ‘to make Britain a country that works for everyone’. She committed to fighting what she recognised as being societal ‘injustices’ and specifically alluded, among others, to the fact that ‘if you’re a white, working-class boy, you’re less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to university’ – a subject already discussed in detail in a previous HEPI report. More...