... at 18. Further more they had 11 times greater chance of going to university. This is supported perhaps by the official statistics from the General Household Surveys of 1985-1986 where it has been shown that 38% of service class children had a degree or equivalent compared to 2% of children from the working class. More recently in the General Household Surveys of 1991-1992, which based upon 19,039 people aged 16 and over. It was show to mirror the results of the 1971 results. In the words of the 1991-1992 survey: 'Men and women whose fathers belonged to non-manual socioeconomic groups have consistently formed a higher proportion of those gaining higher qualifications than would be expected from their representation in the sample, while those from a manual background were over-presented among the unqualified' (General Household Survey 1991, 1994 p201). .A variety of causes have been suggested for the relative educational 'failure' of the working ...

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