In between these challenges lived a constrained sense of their own agency, where participants demonstrated at various levels, the ability to reinterpret class as if one could shift around the social class like swirling sand. Things appeared ‘moveable’ with choice in the Giddens (1991) sense, yet it was debatable as to whether such a change in identity was achievable in substance. At an institutional level, even when students knew their education standards had been higher in Africa or the Caribbean, the role of their college escaped scrutiny with student viewing it instead as paradoxically, progressive. In a neoliberal climate, this suggested an FE – collusion for students had no choice but to consider their individualised options as enterprising and dynamic. To democratise this area of education, and since the Prince has long failed to arrive, FE/Community Colleges, should disassociate itself from its Cinderella social-class role and adopt a more dynamic Serena Williams social-class position to more closely reflect their student’s potential.In between these challenges lived a constrained sense of their own agency, where participants demonstrated at various levels, the ability to reinterpret class as if one could shift around the social class like swirling sand. Things appeared ‘moveable’ with choice in the Giddens (1991) sense, yet it was debatable as to whether such a change in identity was achievable in substance. At an institutional level, even when students knew their education standards had been higher in Africa or the Caribbean, the role of their college escaped scrutiny with student viewing it instead as paradoxically, progressive. In a neoliberal climate, this suggested an FE – collusion for students had no choice but to consider their individualised options as enterprising and dynamic. To democratise this area of education, and since the Prince has long failed to arrive, FE/Community Colleges, should disassociate itself from its Cinderella social-class role and adopt a more dynamic Serena Williams social-class position to more closely reflect their student’s potential.