Chapter 5 describes how class determines educational experience and life choices. Our speakers focus on the barriers to more settled, higher-paid employment opportunities – such as how the narrow test-driven school curriculum sets up some children to ‘fail’; the lack of grants and other resources which prohibit access to higher education and the perception of the greater value of education at private schools and ‘top’ universities.

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Speakers: Shahajahan Ali (or Badgie Ali) | Professor Sam Friedman | Dr. Elizabeth Henry | Susie Morrow | Deb Neville | Dr. Ben Tippet |