My goal in this commentary is to complement the findings of Christine Farquharson, Sandra McNally and Imran Tahir in their chapter on educational inequalities with some general remarks that will provide a context and framework for understanding educational inequalities in the UK. I make five main points, summarised at the start of each section of the commentary.

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Breen, R. (2022), ‘The stubborn persistence of educational inequality’, IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, https://ifs.org.uk/inequality/the-stubborn-persistence-of-educational-inequality