Recent work by the OECD investigating socio-economic divides in Europe recognised that “Education systems can be a force for social mobility. However, they can also reproduce and reinforce existing social divides”. Given this place of schools and universities in maintaining, reinforcing and in some cases increasing social stratification in European nations, what should governments do to ensure that quality of education is as great as possible, while ensuring that educational institutions do not create or perpetuate the concept of “class” as a social divider?