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What are the most valuable degrees?
The most valuable degree you can do is economics, and the least valuable is health and social care. At least according to the latest research by the IFS on the impact of Higher Education on future earnings. The table below … Continue reading
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Posted in education, Sociological concepts
Tagged degree, education, higher, income, private, school, university
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The effect of private schools on future income
Men who went to a private school* go on to earn 78% more at age 29 than men who come from the lowest ‘social class’ quintile. Women who went to a private school* go on to earn 100% more at … Continue reading
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Tagged degree, education, higher, income, independent, private, school, social class, university
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How much more will I earn if I do a degree?
At age 29 male graduates earn £13K more per year than those with 5*-Cs without a degree while women earn £10K per annum more. Look at another way, this means that a degree should pay for itself after just four … Continue reading
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Tagged degree, earnings, education, graduates, HE, income, tuition fees, university, wages
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Rich House, Poor House – Spreading the Myth of Meritocracy
In this Channel 5 series, one family in the ‘wealthiest 10%’ of Britain swap lives for a week with a family in the ‘poorest 10% of Britain’. As I see it this programme performs an ‘ideological control function’ – spreading … Continue reading
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Tagged income, inequality, meritocracy, myth, poverty, Sociology, UK, wealth
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The Effects of Poverty on Life Chances in the United Kingdom
Being in poverty has a negative affect on an individual’s life chances. Being poor means you’ll struggle to make ends-meet, you’ll be stuck renting rather than buying your own house, you’ll probably be in stuck in a debt-cycle, your kids … Continue reading
Posted in Social class, wealth and income inequalities
Tagged crime, education, income, inequality, life-chances, poverty, social class, Sociology, Statistics, U.K. Britain
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