Author
Duncan Exley
Duncan Exley is the former Director of the Equality Trust, taking time out to write on social mobility.
4 pieces
Newest first, since September 2018
· Comment
Don’t dismiss student social activity as optional
Duncan Exley considers what’s missing from the student experience when teaching goes online – and why it matters to social mobility.
· SUs
Are SUs a barrier to realising aspiration?
Policy Press has published “The End of Aspiration? Social Mobility and Our Children’s Fading Prospects”. Here we feature some extracts focussed on students, SUs and extra-curricular activity: Getting started “My own invo
· Comment
Are our children’s prospects fading?
Social mobility is in freefall. Duncan Exley examines the role that universities play in the problem.
· Analysis
Ladders are best designed by people who know what it’s like to climb one
Duncan Exley reflects on the realities of university through the eyes of first-generation students