Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh came joint first in Scotland, (along with Glasgow’s Jordanhill School), after figures released showed...

According to this BBC report , after 30 years of unprecedented economic growth, the British are richer, healthier - but no happier than in...

Fewer pupils from deprived backgrounds are going to university in Scotland despite a raft of initiatives to widen participation, according t...

And From the BBC The rapidly rising incomes of the richest 10% of the population are the major factor contributing to growing inequality in...

Even the Tories are saying it . Children from the most deprived areas of England are falling further behind in school compared to more afflu...

Socialist Courier has often reported on the inequality of opportunity in education and our stance is that it is not accidental or a result ...

They were the generation with "loadsa money" . But now the former 1980s yuppies are struggling to live within their means in m...

From The Independent :- Britain may appear to be a richer country than a decade ago but the gap between the rich and poor has reached levels...

Marx talks of how capitalism drives those professionals often vaguely called the middle class into the ranks of the proletariat so i note t...

Dr Elliot Major said : "This analysis shows that the school you attend at age 11 has a huge impact on your life chances, and particula...

A charity's study has found that children born in the 1950s had a better chance of escaping poverty than those born in the 1970s. The re...

From The Scotsman :- Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who grew up in a single-parent family on a council estate, yesterday ...