educational inequality
Unfair differences in the quality of education or educational opportunities available to different groups of people.
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IELTS use
Use this phrase in essays about poverty, private schools, regional differences, gender, digital access, or government funding.
Examples
- Educational inequality can prevent talented students from reaching their full potential.
- Online learning may reduce educational inequality if all students have reliable internet access.
Collocations
- reduce educational inequality
- Scholarships can help reduce educational inequality.
- widen educational inequality
- Expensive private tutoring may widen educational inequality.
Word family
- Noun
- inequality
- Verb
- educate
- Adjective
- educational
- Adverb
- unequally
Paraphrases
- unequal educational opportunities: A clear paraphrase that explains the idea directly.
- the education gap: A shorter phrase, useful but slightly less formal.
Common mistakes
- education inequality is happened to educational inequality occurs. Happen is not used in the passive here, and educational is the more natural adjective.