Lowering voting age could deepen class divide in schools due to lack of political literacy among teenagers
The decision to reduce the age of voting to 16 may expand the inequality among young people in the UK due to lack of political education at school.
Academics warned that all students have provided equal access to citizenship education, but also benefiting from the richer pasts of the votes expanding the votes to the age of 16 and 17 only benefiting from richer pasts.
Recent research from the University of Roehpton found that private courses on politics and democracy were unregulated in the country and that more wealthy schools were likely to take private lessons.
In addition, the politics of students with university -educated parents were more likely to discuss at home, and that they were more likely to rely on political controversy.
This causes young people from low -income households to be disadvantageous in understanding the parties and voting systems in which the research concludes “class -based inequalities”.
Professor of Political Comparative Social Science at the University of Roehpton “16 -year -old votes are an important milestone, but without appropriate political education at every school, Dr. Bryony Hoskins, a political comparative social science professor at the University of Roahampon.
“Students with the highest probability of benefiting are students who are already surrounded by political knowledge and courage, leaving disadvantaged young people behind again.
“The result is a political system that makes you feel representative and irrelevant for many young people. Considering this, voting at the age of 16 can actually rely on inequality.”
Labour’s manifesto decided to reduce the party to 16 in accordance with Scottish and Galli elections.
Sir Keir Starmer, 16 -year -olds will work via tax and “pay” enough to “pay” enough to reduce the age of the voting age, “important”, so he should have the opportunity to say how they want their money to be spent.
However, a 500 16 and 17 -year -old survey conducted by Merlin strategy for ITV News said that they thought only tomorrow should be allowed to vote and that only 18 percent will certainly vote.
The worker began to win the most, 33 percent said they would support the party, 20 percent of the UK Reform and 18 percent of the Greens will choose, he said.
An EU and the UK Research and Innovation Project found that a political literacy program, which was tried on 900 students at the beginning of this ear, has developed the belief in the ability of students to interact with politics.
“We have clear evidence that short, structured courses that use inclusive training methods can make a real difference, Prof said Professor Hoskins. “This is not a Post Code Lottery, but a part of every young man’s education.”
Before the next general election, researchers call the Ministry of Education to ensure that political literacy becomes a mandatory part of the national curriculum.
Independent He approached the government for a comment.
