A-level results raise social mobility concerns'
Date posted: 21 Aug 2010
Social mobility concerns have been raised by the latest A-level results, the TUC has claimed.
Published by Alison Gamble.
The latest A-level results have underlined the barrier to social mobility, according to the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
After yesterday's (August 20th) A-level results revealed that pass rates in the UK has risen to 97.6 per cent, with a record number of students also receiving A grades, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said the figures may make uncomfortable reading.
He stressed that the introduction of the A* grade, which is awarded to students achieving over 90 per cent in their second, will do even more to favour the "conveyor belt" from private education to top universities.
Mr Barber explained: "Britain remains one of the most unequal and class-bound societies in the developed world. We cannot lift the barriers to social mobility without radical action to make the UK less unequal, yet the policies of deep cuts to public spending are doing the opposite."
Earlier this week, Universities UK chief executive Nicola Dandridge said that the country's universities will need to adopt a sustainable funding structure in the coming years.
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