Widening Access in Rural Areas

The Scottish Government has just published “A Blueprint for Fairness: The Final Report of the Commission on Widening Access”.  The …

ECADOC Summer School 2015

Back in late June I was lucky enough to take part in the second ECADOC summer school – thank you …

“cultural location… is a much better model for explaining social mobility than is the mechanistic undialectical notion of ‘intelligence’.”

This statement was made by Paul Willis in his classic 1977 book ‘Learning to Labour: how working class kids get …

What Use is a Degree?

I’ve just finished reading ‘What use is a degree? Life-stories of University Graduates’ by Ward, Jones and Jenkins. This book …