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A degree promises a better life but social mobility has a downside too

  • Written by Alexandra Coleman, E.G. Whitlam Research Fellow, Whitlam Institute, Western Sydney University
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Higher education has long been associated with the promise of a good life. Participation, however, has no guarantees.

Former prime minister Gough Whitlam argued that Australia’s higher education system was not straightforwardly a “great instrument for the promotion of equality”. Instead, it mainly...

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