The Equality Trust says the UK should concentrate on lifting living standards and educational standards for all young people, not just those who are poor but bright.
More than one thousand Quakers head to London this week for a four-day meeting of witness and worship. With politics and society in a state of flux, this is a pivotal moment to consider privilege and power and how that impacts on the ability to make a difference.
Eight top schools and colleges sent as many pupils to Oxford or Cambridge over three years as three-quarters of all schools and colleges, according to new analysis of UCAS data published by the Sutton Trust
A senior French Protestant has called growing income inequality a form of violence and has asked for self-restraint among high earners in a time of austerity.
The gap between very high incomes and low salaries has been widening for several years, says Laurent Schlumberger, president of the national council of the Reformed Church of France. Where governments and consumers are reluctant to act, there is still a moral imperative on high earners to refuse grossly unequal remuneration, he argues.