Longer read: Monsters of meritocracy and beasts of bias: why social class matters in education, and how #MakeIt10 can help

20 September 2022 by

If you work hard enough, you can achieve anything.  This is the foundation of the concept of meritocracy, the belief…

Book review – Poverty safari: understanding the anger of Britain’s underclass

12 July 2022 by

Book author: Darren McGarvey. Poverty Safari is an award-winning book published in 2017 about the socio-economically disadvantaged communities and people…

Reflections on being working class in a middle class profession

9 September 2020 by , 4 comments

I am a trainee educational psychologist (EP). I am also from a working-class family. I grew up in a council…