Fiona Devine is currently involved in a qualitative project following on her work on middle-class reproduction. In 2010, in-depth interviews were conducted with thirty young women and men in Year 11 of a PFI school in a working-class area of Greater Manchester.  In their final year of compulsory schooling, they were asked about their educational and occupational aspirations.  In 2011, these young people are being re-interviewed as they pursue a range of vocational and academic courses through FE. Their experiences of mobility or not will be especially interesting as a generation of young people either entering a severely depressed economy following the financial crisis in 2008 or moving into higher education at a time of consideration change with the introduction of student fees in 2012/3.