‘I don’t fit in’: Is classism at UK universities getting worse?
While growing up in a small town in Kent, 20-year-old Annabelle never considered herself working-class. “Back home, because my mum has a mortgage and we don’t live in a council house, I’m considered middle-class,” she says. But that all changed when she started studying at the University of Cambridge. “I don’t fit in in lots of ways,” she explains. “When my friends talk about art, or wines, or restaurants, I feel really isolated, because I haven’t grown up with that experience at allhellip;