The Sutton Trust’s optimistic slogan on its masthead proclaims that it has been “Improving social mobility for 20 years”. Sadly, its own site includes a disturbing study, commissioned from the LSE, revealing “that social mobility in Britain — the way in which someone’s adult outcomes are related to their circumstances as a child — is lower than in Canada, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland”. Moreover, unlike in America, social mobility is actually declining here rather than improving, mainly because graduation rates for the richest fifth have risen so much. 

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