Sentence examples for from very disadvantaged backgrounds from inspiring English sources

"In many cases they came from very disadvantaged backgrounds," said Dheda.

Finally, there is some bias in our sample of the ALSPAC cohort as children from very advantaged and very disadvantaged backgrounds are under-represented.

But a lot of the people from the study are from really disadvantaged backgrounds and have had a tough life, and when they were asked this question, many of them became very sad and distressed thinking about it.

"Children from disadvantaged backgrounds very often have high ambitions, especially when they are young," said Sir Michael.

The change is likely to affect graduates educated at selective state grammar schools, which produce similarly high A-level results but also tend to contain very few pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.

"The problem is that very few students from disadvantaged backgrounds actually take those subjects, they won't be motivated to take them.

Studies like these ignore the fact that a significant number of students at newer universities come from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, and the very fact of taking part in higher education will reduce these disadvantages, even if their alumni don't end up as professors of philosophy within six months of graduating.

Grammar schools now and in the past have admitted very few secondary pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.

However, far from undermining the coalition's social mobility strategy, our study actually confirms the previous research evidence on which the strategy is based – which has shown that children from disadvantaged backgrounds have very poor cognitive skills compared to their richer contemporaries, and that this socioeconomic gap emerges early in childhood.

Thinking about access for disadvantaged students: I think there is much that can be done with technology and gifted students and the point about parents from disadvantaged backgrounds is a very valid one.

"Given that this is currently additional funding available only to children from disadvantaged backgrounds who meet very specific criteria, we are unclear as to why this money has been factored into the general three- and four-year-old rate.