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Thinking Allowed

Elite Universities - Working Class Students

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4973 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

CLASS AND EDUCATION Laurie Taylor talks to Kalwant Bhopal, Professor of Education and Social Justice at the University of Birmingham, about her research into the inner workings of elite universities and the making of privilege.

They're joined by Iona Burnell Reilly, Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the University of East London, whose latest study presents a collection of autoethnographies, written by working class academics in higher education, and considers how have they become who they are in an industry steeped in elitism.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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Hello I've been a lecturer at the University of York for about 10 years had even risen to the

0:53.5

Disney Heights of a senior lecture ship when I received an invitation to an

0:57.6

interview for a senior post in criminology at the University of Cambridge.

1:01.8

Oh that's quite an honour, said one departmental colleague,

1:05.8

adding rather enigmatically.

1:08.1

After all, say what you like.

1:10.2

Cambridge is Cambridge.

1:12.4

Well, I remember that moment in my decision to stay at York as I was reading a new book entitled

1:17.3

Elite Universities and the Making a Privilege exploring race and class in global educational economies.

1:25.6

It's a book which aspires to show how elite universities operate as engines of

1:31.4

class and inequity and thereby give the light of the argument

1:35.9

that we live in an open democracy. Well the authors of this book are Calvant Bo-Powell

1:41.1

and Martin Myers and Calvin Bo- Bo-Powell, Professor of Education and

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