Educational inequality

A recent research project undertaken by the Centre for the Economics of Education has found that how well you do in school, whether you get a degree or not and how much you subsequently earn in the labour market, has become more closely linked to the prosperity of your parents. The children of richer parents have always done better in school, have always been more likely to get a degree and have always gone on to earn more once they enter the world of work. However, this is truer now than in the past, despite decades of government initiatives designed to promote equality of opportunity in education.