> Teach First’s analysis of additional DfE data also reveals that this destinations gap is largely driven by higher drop-out rates for disadvantaged pupils in education after they finish their GCSEs.
> In 2019/20, young people from disadvantaged backgrounds were almost twice as likely to drop out of their A-Level course than their non-disadvantaged peers (13.2% compared to 6.9%).
It doesn’t go into details of what kind of grades each group achieved, which could be useful to know (I feel I’d be more likely to drop out with shit grades than if I was getting B’s / A’s etc.)
In an era where we are super keen on diversity etc I feel like socio-economic status is one that is getting left behind. It has such huge knockons on everything.
For eg equalise every other category apart from socio economic and the opportunities for the latter are far far fewer.
Money and time is such a key driver.
For eg my gf had to work 2 jobs through school and so never had money or time for any extra curricular stuff or groups or hobbies that cost money. She also didnt do very well at a level because she had to work.
She is way, way smarter than me. But I didnt have to work so spent all the time studying.
Yeah, no shit. That’s literally what being disadvantaged means.
Automation is tightening the pareto distribution of real-terms success.
Rich people have better connections, more firsthand experience of what wealth/working get you and also have the floating capital to not struggle massively whilst starting a new career and being paid absolute peanuts for a few years.
You wonder why our country is fucked when the ‘highest fliers’ are all people who’ve never lived a day as a real citizen on the streets.
It’s almost as if it’s by design to keep poor people working Amazon warehouses whilst rich kids get management jobs straight after dropping out of uni cause they did too much coke.
Mmm interesting. No mention of the fact that the unemployment rates were a lot higher in the 80’s and 90’s
From my experience at uni, my friends from wealthier backgrounds just knew how to go about getting industry-relevant jobs or internships over the holidays that really helped them get a job once they graduated. Their families all seemed to know people in their industry so they had no problem getting their foot in the door. We’d go to the graduate fair and they would know how to talk the people manning the booths, like it was second nature to them. They probably had shit careers advice at school too but it does not matter when you are effectively taught how to navigate work and education from a young age.
I worked for a woman the same age as me who was already a millionaire from inheritance, half of her clients were family members and she was constantly posting on social media about not having male privilege and getting rid of the “pale male and stale” establishment. She thought she was smashing the system.
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> Teach First’s analysis of additional DfE data also reveals that this destinations gap is largely driven by higher drop-out rates for disadvantaged pupils in education after they finish their GCSEs.
> In 2019/20, young people from disadvantaged backgrounds were almost twice as likely to drop out of their A-Level course than their non-disadvantaged peers (13.2% compared to 6.9%).
It doesn’t go into details of what kind of grades each group achieved, which could be useful to know (I feel I’d be more likely to drop out with shit grades than if I was getting B’s / A’s etc.)
In an era where we are super keen on diversity etc I feel like socio-economic status is one that is getting left behind. It has such huge knockons on everything.
For eg equalise every other category apart from socio economic and the opportunities for the latter are far far fewer.
Money and time is such a key driver.
For eg my gf had to work 2 jobs through school and so never had money or time for any extra curricular stuff or groups or hobbies that cost money. She also didnt do very well at a level because she had to work.
She is way, way smarter than me. But I didnt have to work so spent all the time studying.
Yeah, no shit. That’s literally what being disadvantaged means.
Automation is tightening the pareto distribution of real-terms success.
Rich people have better connections, more firsthand experience of what wealth/working get you and also have the floating capital to not struggle massively whilst starting a new career and being paid absolute peanuts for a few years.
You wonder why our country is fucked when the ‘highest fliers’ are all people who’ve never lived a day as a real citizen on the streets.
It’s almost as if it’s by design to keep poor people working Amazon warehouses whilst rich kids get management jobs straight after dropping out of uni cause they did too much coke.
Mmm interesting. No mention of the fact that the unemployment rates were a lot higher in the 80’s and 90’s
From my experience at uni, my friends from wealthier backgrounds just knew how to go about getting industry-relevant jobs or internships over the holidays that really helped them get a job once they graduated. Their families all seemed to know people in their industry so they had no problem getting their foot in the door. We’d go to the graduate fair and they would know how to talk the people manning the booths, like it was second nature to them. They probably had shit careers advice at school too but it does not matter when you are effectively taught how to navigate work and education from a young age.
I worked for a woman the same age as me who was already a millionaire from inheritance, half of her clients were family members and she was constantly posting on social media about not having male privilege and getting rid of the “pale male and stale” establishment. She thought she was smashing the system.