Education
Class are currently committed to projects which promote a socially just education system.
We are working with a number of academics to develop a strategy that ensures people have equal access to quality education regardless of factors such as their location or socioeconomic background.
Projects
Publications
- A New Vision for Further and Higher Education
- Briefing: Spending Review 2015
- Briefing: The Queen’s Speech 2015
- The First 100 Days
- The role of local government in a modern state
- The politics of curriculum in schools
- Education, justice and democracy
- The Case for Universalism
- What would a socially just education system look like?
Blogs
- As 2020 ends, is the Jobs Crisis Just Beginning?
- A Shake Up in the Adult Education System?
- The ‘Levelling Down’ of Working Class Students
- Covid-19 and Tertiary Education
- Universities in Crisis
- A Decade of Missed Opportunities in Further Education
- A Chance To End School Cuts
- Can Universities Become ‘Anchors’ for a Green Economy?
- College Teachers Fight For Fairer Pay
- CLASS Panel Reacts to the 2018 Budget
- The Problem With GCSEs
- Introducing the Progressive Economy Forum
- Labour Market Realities: Pressures on Lecturers
- Post-18 Funding Review: Listen to Students or Waste Another Opportunity to Reform a Broken System
- University Staff Strike to Protect Their Pensions and Their Profession
- ‘A Huge Disappointment’: Our Panel Reacts to the Budget 2017
- Change in Sight: Students Still Marching For Free and Accessible Education
- Oxbridge Diversity is Important, But Inequality in Higher Education Runs Much Deeper
- Fish out of Water: A Working Class Student in an Elite Institution
- Then and Now: The Challenges Facing School Leavers
- Labour Market Realities: Teachers and the Public Sector Pay Freeze
- The Stakes: Education
- Spring Budget 2017: Our Panel Reacts
- Education, Not Marketisation: Why Warwick Students Have Gone into Occupation
- Why Care About Having a Black Prime Minister?
- Class Conference 2016: Where Do We Go from Here?
- Comprehensive Schools Are Not Enough: The Challenge of Education Policy for the Left
- Why are grammar schools on the agenda?
- Dr Faiza Shaheen: Youth week roundup
- Day 5: Economic growth and youth prospects by region
- Day 4: Class, privilege and Oxbridge.
- Day 3: Student debt
- Day 2: International students
- Day1: Brexit: Implications for young people
- 4 Reasons Grammar Schools are a Bad Idea
- The mountain of student debt weighing on our young people may soon get even bigger.
- Looking ahead: what Class did next
- Ofsted shows most children receive a good education, despite the difficulties faced by teachers
- Spending review 2015: Your Guide
- This is why lecturers at further education colleges are striking
- Grammar schools segregate children by social class
- What do we know about race, education and inequality in contemporary Britain?
- Teaching Aspiration
- Are our schools in safe hands?
- Five ways to deal with a full blown Conservative Government
- First 100 Days - Transforming Education
- First 100 Days - Investing in a Future for Young People
- The select committee confirms it: academies are a failed experiment
- Here’s why we should reject government proposals to sell student debt to universities
- What to make of the IPPR report
- Fair pay in higher education – why I went on strike today
- Why Performance Related Pay won’t work
- The marketisation of education is destroying our universities
- Reviving the Beveridge vision of a Social State
Events
- Class Conference 2013: Leading the Debate
- Back to School 2020
- Post-Election Public Debate
- TUC Congress 2013: Reconstruction after the crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Labour Party Conference 2013: Achieving a Social State
- A think tank for working people: Class Yorkshire Launch
- A think tank for working people: Class North West Launch
- GMB Congress 2013: Why is Class such an important GMB investment?
News and press releases
- The Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class): Brexit generation face uncertain future
- Class announces Faiza Shaheen as new Director
- Reclaiming aspiration - key figures on the left respond to the current debate
- PRESS RELEASE: The Education and Adoption Bill will entrench social inequality
- Leading progressives put forward far-reaching policies for the first 100 days of government
- Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) responds to Labour’s Youth Manifesto
- Class Conference 2014: The Film
- Class Conference 2014: The Photos
- Class Conference 2014: The Highlights
- New Class/YouGov poll finds 2 in 3 people want to cap executive salaries
- New Class/YouGov poll finds 2 in 3 people want to cap executive salaries
- Think tank calls for a radical rethink of the role of local government
- The National Curriculum is failing our children
- Think tank criticises academies system for entrenching social inequality
- Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference
- Class launches new policy library resource for trade unions and researchers
- Class holds North West launch & commits to giving working people in the UK a strong political voice
- Zoe Williams paper launches new Class series – A Social State for 2015
