"The aspirational society stalls at the gates of academe", by John Lloyd, in the FT of July 25, questions the role of the university in promoting social mobility. An extract: "...the university becomes an ambiguous social factor. The more education it confers, the better the possibility for advancement up through the classes. But it also functions as a filter: the professions, and higher earnings, are now so routinely associated with the degrees it gives that those without its benison find the career and class bonds tighter than ever."
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