This essay I will argue about the relationship between the Higher education system and social class in Britain; it is important to mention that it is based on investigations, surveys and interviews with applicants at the tertiary education, this document takes into account several aspects of criteria such as social class, background in the higher education system and the requirements that the students and their families consider for university selection. According to Halsey, A. (1993) there was a big importance into the education system, it means and always in consideration with all the aspects around education and also involves all kind and level of education. Before the Second World War, there was a huge expansion in the education system, …show more content…
Is better if we mention that entry in universities in almost all Europe, is a little bit different, because the state has increased the control. It should be noted that this control has been increasing since Napoleonic times by setting up barriers to entry (ibid). Go on at tertiary education levels is based in the definition of the student through the examination content, or the financial support, but this happened because the increasing demand of a place in a university was growth after the Second World War, Thus means that the education system experimented a big change in the curricula and this began a crisis of the situation of “labour market destination of the alumni”; this leads to change in the higher education system, and it was a big step of differentiation and discrimination to the new generations. This leads to the creation and the enrolment of the student in a specific subject, such as arts, maths or science it will be a way to recognize the social class and again a way of discrimination to the new students generations who want to study in a university or ex polytechnics. Nonetheless, that the creation of the barriers is a problem to students in the actuality, but the politicians who have been controlling the entrance into the university have created a division in the higher education, thus is a difference and a stratification in the same; therefore the