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1 online resource (vi, 304 pages .) |
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Intro; THE END OF ASPIRATION?; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. The world's great meritocracy; What the hell am I doing here?; Old school: backgrounds of the 'establishment'; The past and another country: how we compare; Who's who; 2. Early years; Dutch lessons; The price of a good start; The impossible girl; School readiness and parenting; A positive mindset; Can a positive mindset be taught?; Life lessons; Family structure; The safety net; Childcare; The die is cast?; 3. School years; Top at five, bottom at thirteen; Faces that fit; Pride and prejudice; Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits |
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The power of a good teacherThe cost of a free education; Selection by ability; Spend to segregate ... ; ... or invest to integrate; Battles won on playing fields ... ; Basic provisions or extra rations; Neighbourhood; 4. Choosing a path; Inspiration and aspiration; 'Someone like me'; 'Yes we can'; Improbability drives; What to study?; Work experience; Choosing higher education; Admissions of failure; Widening participation in higher education; Pressure points; Choosing a different path; 5. Higher education, and other higher education; Strangers in paradise; Out of class; The seminar room |
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Creating or hosting prosperity?Careers services; The cost; An alternative higher education; 6. Into a job; Unexpectedly unready, again; High-quality candidates; Self-made; Room at the top; 7. Career progression; A crash course in applied anthropology; Management training for children; Consequences of rebelliousness; The entrepreneurial ladder; Getting up off the floor; Investing in people; The Sports Direct effect; 8. For richer or poorer; Feeling at home; Work versus wealth; Anti-aspiration policies; Pairing up or marrying down; Buying chances; 9. Does social mobility matter? |
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Business, public services and the economy: out of touch and out-performedPolitics in a bubble: not on the same page, not on the same story; Dissenting without differing; Against social mobility: knowing one's place; Against social mobility: an excuse for inequality; Against social mobility: the individual and the collective; 10. Conclusion: Barriers and opportunities; An opportunity society?; Hostile environment; Segregation; Toll roads on the route to opportunity; Heroes and heroines; The scarcity of the objects of aspiration; Creating an environment hospitable to aspiration; Desegregation |
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Wider horizonsDemolishing toll booths; A bigger pie; Hope, and a story of hope; Notes; Index |
| ISBN |
9781447348337 (electronic bk.) |
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1447348338 (electronic bk.) |
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9781447348351 |
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1447348354 |
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9781447348344 |
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1447348346 |
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144734832X |
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9781447348320 |
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