Madeleine Arnot is Fellow of Jesus College, Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is an internationally recognised expert on gender issues in education, equality policies and citizenship education and has published key pieces on Bernstein's sociology of pedagogy. Diane Reay has recently been appointed Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge. She is currently Professor of Education at London Metropolitan University. She is an internationally renowned expert on social class in education but has researched widely across gender, race and class issues in education.