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**BrianGoldsmith** · 10-03-2010, 03:30 AM

No other country has this - people dont like top be categorized and labelled as a rule, but in Britain we do this, there is not as much social mobility as many would like to think also .

There is probably more opportunity for poor people to get out of their situation in the UK than there is in many other European countries. University education is heavily subsidised and there are an increasing amount of programmes aimed at getting working class people into university. The UK has at least an average level of social mobility.

On the whole higher education in the UK is LESS elitist than a lot of European countries. In the UK all the Polytechnics have been relabled universities, while in Europe they are still called polytechnics.

10-03-2010, 03:30 AM	#18
BrianGoldsmith Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 479 Senior Member	No other country has this - people dont like top be categorized and labelled as a rule, but in Britain we do this, there is not as much social mobility as many would like to think also . There is probably more opportunity for poor people to get out of their situation in the UK than there is in many other European countries. University education is heavily subsidised and there are an increasing amount of programmes aimed at getting working class people into university. The UK has at least an average level of social mobility. On the whole higher education in the UK is LESS elitist than a lot of European countries. In the UK all the Polytechnics have been relabled universities, while in Europe they are still called polytechnics.
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