Großbritannien: „Schools have long been viewed as the engine for social mobility but we find that gaps between the poorest students and the others are prevalent at all stages in the education system. […] It is time to change the assumption that Britain can thrive economically with an education system that only focusses on the 40 per cent of students that study A Levels.“
Social Mobility Commission (Hrsg.), State of the Nation 2018-19: Social Mobility in Great Britain (2019), Vorwort, S. V.