Education divide set to widen during lockdown, charity warns
Unequal access to adequate home-learning environments could disproportionately affect the grades of poorer students, says the Social Mobility Foundation
A child during a Year 5 class at a primary school in Yorkshire
THE education divide will widen during the coronavirus lockdown, with poorer students less likely to have access to quiet study rooms, private tutors and the internet, a charity warned today.
About 40 per cent of children from low-income families – earning less than £20,000 – do not have a quiet room at home to work in, according to data from the Social Mobility Foundation (SMF).
In households where parents earn over £70,000 the figure is18 per cent.
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