Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The problem with social mobility and higher education -- ch. 2 Class and the life history as an account of social change -- ch. 3 A rare breed Working-class students in higher education before the Robbins Review -- ch. 4 The golden era? Funded growth and student grants -- ch. 5 Massification without resource: The 1980s and 1990s -- ch. 6 Graduates of the twenty-first century - the new era of higher education -- ch. 7 Gateways and gatekeepers: Mobility and class revisited -- ch. 8 Social mobility and higher education in the future
Summary
Opportunities and life chances are central to developing a more equal society and education is seen as key path to upward mobility but opportunities are diminishing, as this study of 150 life history accounts from graduates who were the first in their families to enter Higher Education, and of the impact of changes to Higher Educationpolicy since the 1950s, shows
