Equality in education means getting a job due to competence, not who you know

August is the holiday season for many of us, but for young people it’s normally a time with far more significance. Because it’s when the education calendar has its most pivotal moments, and make-or-break GCSE and A-level grades are revealed. For university graduates, already armed with their degrees and now looking ahead, it’s time to decide what comes next and ideally how to make those first steps towards a career. 

But this year, little is normal for the class of 2020. The future for them has more uncertainty than for any generation in recent years. Yet out of this crisis must come a better, fairer version of Britain. This should be a moment when we bring forward bold, radical steps on education and employment that reset what has become a normalised British “tradition” of inequality of opportunity.

Read more:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/education-state-schools-catch-up-funding-teachers-equality-coronavirus-a9658161.html

Rt Hon Justine Greening

Founder, Social Mobility Pledge

Former Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Women and Equalities, Secretary of State for International Development, Secretary of State for Transport, Economic Secretary to the Treasury