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Educational Fairness: how much does it matter and how should it be addressed?

Amol Rajan and guests discuss whether the education needs rethinking in the light of inequalities that have been become even more apparent during the pandemic.

Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4's Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again in the conversations and essays of 2020. The pandemic brought renewed focus on different educational experiences  as some schools managed to deliver online lessons more successfully than others. It also shed light on our exam system as different parts of the UK wrestled with the question of how fair this form of assessment was likely to be. However, education has been at the centre of the debate about how to increase social mobility for decades. Is now the time to bring about a fundamental shift and rethink how we might make education fairer? 

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Sammy Wright, vice principal of Southmoor Academy in Sunderland and member of the advisory body, the Social Mobility Commission.
Katherine Birbalsingh,  founder and headteacher of the Michaela Community School in London 
Anna Vignoles,  professor of education at the University of Cambridge
Lindsay Paterson, professor of educational policy at Edinburgh University


Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Editor: Rosamund Jones

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Fairness in society: how much does it matter and how should it be addressed?

Five discussions on one theme: fairness. Amol Rajan and guests take on wealth, health, educational, regional and generational divides.

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