aking it into any class category, these are known as 'The Underclass' this class includes people with low life chances such as education and employment, into this group. In my opinion, the class grouping an individual is placed into could influence their whole lives, and according to various texts, very few of those labelled in the lower classes tend to move higher up the class scale.
             Despite a major expansion in student numbers, which has enabled more people from wider backgrounds to take higher education (HE) qualifications, students from lower social class backgrounds continue to be under represented.
             Fewer than one in five young people from the lower social class groups participate in HE, and although this proportion has been increasing, it remains well below the 45 per cent who participate from the higher social class groups a figure, which has also been increasing rapidly over the years. Lower social class groups represent 28 per cent of the total entrants to full-time undergraduate study, a lower share than their 39 per cent in the UK population as a whole. In particular institutions and subjects, the proportion of HE students from lower social class groups can range from as low as 10 per cent to above 40 per cent.
             I believe that there is a certain amount of bias towards pupils from the lower classes. Rosenthal & Jacobson said in their study 'Pygmalion in the classroom' that;
             Labelling leads to self-fulfilling prophecy. The children are not expected to do well and therefore are not educated above their class level. They receive little attention causing disillus
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