The complex ways that improved access to higher education for marginalised youth might offer possibilities for intergenerational mobility was the focus of a lecture given on 24 June 2026 at the University of Sussex by  Dr Anagha Tambe from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India.

The event, hosted by the Centre for International Education (CIE), was part of the Summer of Research programme and was organised by CIE in conjunction with the Sussex School for Progressive Futures. 

Anagha's lecture, which sought to interrupt hierarchies of caste, class and gender, was based on action research into the nexus of education and work conducted by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies which Anagha directs. 

The panel of respondents included International Education Postgraduate Researcher Nari Kamakshi; Head of the School of Global Studies, Professor Geert De Neve; Máiréad Dunne, Adjunct Professor at University College Cork; and Chief of Section Higher Education UNESCO, Professor Noah Sobe. All contributed to rich animated discussions on the complex intersecting structures of inequality.

An agreed key take-away from the lecture was the significance of worker's unions in supporting marginalised youth in negotiating the intransigent spaces of higher education.

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The Centre for International Education is a Sussex 'Centre of Excellence'.