Posts by Pat Thomson

  • Hidden costs of state education are stigmatising poorer pupils

    Hidden costs of state education are stigmatising poorer pupils

    It’s official: poverty in England is getting worse. Britain is on the verge of becoming a nation deeply and permanently divided by poverty, according to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, with 2020 marking the end of the “first decade since records began where there has been no fall in absolute poverty”.

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