Sentences with phrase «appg on social mobility»

Prof Claire Callender and John Thompson investigate the decline in part - time students in England and the effect this has had on social mobility.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Good answers here would be focused on social mobility in comparative historical terms.

This speech to the Fabian Society disproves Lammy's loyalist credentials unless he is making an inadvertent miscalulation in attacking Labour's record on social mobility — surely he must be in the wrong party to be deliberately exposing the divide between their aspiration and achievement from a position of government, and it beggars belief that a serious politician would undermine their own argument in this way after suggested he himself has been a beneficiary of the process.

Selection is deeply rooted and the warnings on the adverse impact on social mobility are too late.

He proposed a left - right split, and offered a watery vision of what latter - day «modernisers» should be all about: a «renewed sense of moral purpose», reducible to the hoary New Labour emphasis on social mobility, and a politics that would «be seen to be grappling seriously with the big questions of the day: migration, globalisation, terrorism, the environment, welfare, housing, our place in the world».

I just wonder how much effect ANY of these policies really have on social mobility outcomes.

In February, an all - party parliamentary group on social mobility called for character education, which includes mindfulness, to be part of the curriculum.

Class was still the source of «persistent inequality» in British society, the government said in a white paper on social mobility published on Tuesday.

Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Education, admitted the facts on social mobility were «depressing» and cited studies showing that, for people in their thirties, the social class of their parents mattered even more than it did in the past.

Rather than focusing on social mobility, Miliband grasps at the retention of the 50p top tax rate as his solution.

With chapters in The Purple Book from Tessa Jowell, Peter Mandelson and Caroline Flint, all Blairite veterans, it's hard to ignore the clear Blairite focus on social mobility, education and devolution.

Last week, former minister Alan Milburn delivered a report on social mobility which criticised universities» performance in recruiting students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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He agrees that the fact that the cabinet is packed with people from private schools reflects badly on social mobility in Britain.

3.30 pm: Teather, Simon Hughes, the deputy leader and the government's advocate for access to education, Steve Webb, the pensions minister, and Lady Hussein - Ece, a commissioner at the equality and human rights commission, take part in a Q&A session on social mobility.

In a step towards a dreamy classless society perhaps, and another towards greater transparency, the Cabinet Office today published its report on social mobility.

«Researchers would always like less restrictive access,» says Miles Corak, an economist at the University of Ottawa who has helped develop data sets on social mobility while working for Statistics Canada.

Despite Prime Minister Theresa May putting social mobility at the heart of her proposals to reintroduce selection, the EPI found no significant positive impact on social mobility.

However, responses were mixed when it came to grammar's effect on social mobility: 35 per cent held the view that grammars improve social mobility, while 19 per cent thought they damaged social mobility and a further 27 per cent believed they made no difference at all (20 per cent of respondents said they didn't know).

The data on social mobility in the U.S. are startling.

But the Government's focus on social mobility does show it means business on transforming the life chances of young people and I hope this is just the start of good things to come.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, Mr Hinds once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister and Ms Greening.

The research on social mobility shows that people are optimistic that education will get better, but think job security and housing will get worse.

Three new reports have been released with the focus on social mobility: The State of Social Mobility in the UK produced by Boston Consulting Group; Social Mobility and Economic Success produced by Oxera Consulting; and What the Polling Says, from Ipsos Mori.

They say 95 per cent of pupils in Surrey are already at good or outstanding schools, and that there is no evidence that grammar schools have any positive impact on social mobility.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, he once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister, and his immediate predecessor, Justine Greening.

Dr. Jerrim's report was published by the Sutton Trust, a British educational charity that focuses on social mobility.

When Hillary Clinton wanted to talk to an esteemed researcher on social mobility, she called Raj Chetty, a Stanford economics professor, a recipient of a MacArthur «Genius» Fellowship, and a winner of the John Bates Clark medal, given to the best American economist under age 40.

Nottingham and Manchester are among areas that are relatively well - funded, but don't do particularly well on social mobility.

Previously he chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility.

Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union comments on the social mobility action plan announced today by Justine Greening...

As a not - for - profit organisation, we are committed to projects that will improve education and outcomes for children and young people, such as our recent work on teacher recruitment and retention, and our work on social mobility.

«Despite all the evidence showing the harmful effects on social mobility, the government is committed to delivering a policy for the few at the expense of the many,» said Mr Hobby.

The government said it was making «good progress» on social mobility and focusing on disadvantaged areas.

«I think a proper focus on narrowing the gap before [age] five will have a real impact on social mobility,» she said.

Grammar schools do not have better pupil attainment than other state schools and should be closed for the negative impact they have on social mobility, a new study...

The I's Richard Vaughn cites findings from the Class Ceiling report, the APPG on Social Mobility report.

And focussing on social mobility alone will not make society more equal.

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Before moving to Devon last September she was a governor of several schools and trustee of several charities, and remains the founding Chair of the Bridge Group, a charity focusing on social mobility policy.

In it, he warns that there may be no impact whatsoever on social mobility indicators at a local level within the three - year evaluation timescale set for the project.

The issue of teaching character, which until now has mainly been debated within the ivory towers of academia, is suddenly all the rage in policy circles in the UK, in the wake of the report by the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on social mobility, and shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt's latest speech.

For schools to be eligible for the TLIF funding, they need to be located in one of the government opportunity areas (GOAs) or in Group 6 on both Social Mobility and Achieving Excellence Areas analysis.

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), comments on the new research by the Sutton Trust on social mobility published today.

We have a Government who are failing on selection, failing on social mobility, failing on the recruitment and retention of teachers, failing to provide enough good school places, and letting our future generation down badly.

The research also failed to find a «significant positive impact» on social mobility, and in fact found that the gap between the proportion of children on free school meals attaining five A * to C GCSEs including English and maths and all other children was actually wider in selective areas (34.1 per cent) than in non-selective areas (27.8 per cent).

The government is under pressure to justify its plans to open the first new grammar schools in England in decades, in the face of a large amount of evidence that shows that they have a negative effect on social mobility.

I do not think that it is tenable in a country that has grammars and selection for the Opposition to say they do not like that situation, but that they do not want us to take any steps whatever to see how we can deliver more strongly on social mobility through the schools already in place.

By itself, this raises important questions around what impact tightened budgets and cuts may have on social mobility.