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Thinking Allowed: Elite Universities - Working Class Students

Elite Universities - Working Class Students

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Elite universities and the lives of working class academics.

Class and Education: Laurie Taylor explores elite universities and the lives of working class academics.

CLASS AND EDUCATION 
Laurie Taylor talks to Kalwant Bhopal, Professor of Education and Social Justice at the University of Birmingham, about her research into the inner workings of elite universities and the making of privilege. 

They're joined by Iona Burnell Reilly, Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the University of East London, whose  latest study presents a collection of autoethnographies, written by working class academics in higher education, and considers how have they become who they are in an industry steeped in elitism.  

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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