Students from working-class backgrounds can only make the decision to go to university if they develop a ‘sense of opportunity’ at school, according to new research. Kaidong Yu from The University of ...

I was the first person in my entire extended family to go to university. Conversations with relatives went like this: I was told about tuition fee debt, reminded that some trades paid better than ...

In 2004, when I first arrived on campus, almost immediately I noticed a lack of working-class students like me. The giveaway was the lack of Yorkshire accents or, indeed, many regional accents at all.

The fixation with the ‘white working class’ as a disadvantaged and underrepresented section of British society by politicians and the media is more pronounced than ever before in the wake of Brexit ...

New research by LSE Sociology's Sam Friedman explores why so many middle class professionals insist they are working class. "Coronavirus has brutally reinforced that it pays to be privileged. Yet ...