Reasons of educational inequality in UK
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The issue of educational inequality is commonly characterized by the gap in academic opportunities available to different groups of people, which can be influenced by family history, environment, identity, gender, and other factors. In modern Britain, a developed country, the issue of educational inequality is still a headache for the local government and a source of dissatisfaction for the local people. The UK is one of the most geographically unequal countries in the developed world’ (Children’s Commissioner for England, 2021), data in 2019, by the age of 16, only 24.7% of disadvantages pupils achieved grade 5 or above in English and math GCSEs, while 50.3% of their peers who come from more affluent family.
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