Diane Reay
British academic and professor of education
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Diane Reay is a sociologist and academic, and emeritus professor of education at the University of Cambridge.[1][2][3] She is noted for her study about educational inequalities among students in state schools in the United Kingdom.[1] She has maintained that there is a tendency to misuse the school selection practice to transform social class differences into education.[4] She has criticised the Oxbridge application process as "institutionally racist".[5]
Working-class student experiences
Reay's research highlights the challenges that working-class students have in higher education, in particular when accessing and transitioning to and within higher education.[1]
Background
Reay is the daughter of a coal miner and the eldest of eight children. She grew up on a council estate and received free school meals. In an interview, she said, "I learned as a small child I had to work at least twice as hard as the middle-class children to achieve the same result."[1]
She taught in a London primary school for 20 years before she began work at Cambridge,[1] where she is an emeritus professor of sociology of education.[3]
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