The inspectors’ new catchphrase shows ‘white, middle-class paternalism’ that will alienate many students, critics say

A two-word term, invented in the 1970s by a French sociologist heavily influenced by Karl Marx, makes an unlikely entrance in Ofsted’s new framework [pdf] for the inspection of schools in England this week.

Each institution is now to be judged on the extent to which it builds pupils’ “cultural capital”. What exactly does that mean?