Kate Green comments on study by Sutton Trust and IFS of universities and social mobility

Kate Green MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responding to the new study from the Sutton Trust and the IFS ranking English universities on social mobility, said:

“Universities should be engines of social mobility but across the country far too many young people are being held back from accessing the world-class education these institutions have to offer.

“Under the Conservatives the increase in students on free school meals attending university has stalled, and Ministers are sitting on their hands failing to drive forward reform to university admissions that Labour has been calling for.

“Failure to open these doors wastes individual talent and huge future potential.”