Sentences with phrase «chair of social mobility»

Earlier in the day Alan Milburn, chair of the social mobility committee, called for tuition fees to be scrapped and subsidised housing for teachers working in the country's most challenging schools.

The Rt Hon Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility Commission, said: «The country seems to be in the grip of a self - reinforcing spiral of ever - growing division.

Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility Commission, said: «When low income young people from the same area with the same school results are progressing less than their better - off classmates, that is not about lack of ability.

Alan Milburn MP, chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (SMCPC), said the installation of written exams could mean excluding disadvantaged pupils and only allowing access to pupils from richer backgrounds who could use private tutoring to get through the tests.

Chair of Social Mobility Commission Alan Milburn has called on the government to put education at the centre of its drive to deliver social mobility.

Not exact matches

David Johnston, chief executive of the Social Mobility Foundation, also receives an OBE, as do Gerri McAndrew, chief executive of Buttle UK, former chief executive of the Fostering Network, and chair of the grant management panel at the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies, and Naomi Marek, chief executive of Sky Badger, which supports the families of children with disabilities or special educational needs.

In a major blow to No 10, Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who chairs the government's social mobility commission, said that he and all three of his fellow commissioners were walking out — including a leading conservative, Gillian Shephard.

The Report of The Century Foundation Task Force on the Common School, Chaired by Lowell Weicker (Executive Director)(2002); and A Notion at Risk: Preserving Public Education as an Engine for Social Mobility (2000).

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.

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.

Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP for Harlow, chair of the Education Committee, said: «Without stronger powers the Social Mobility Commission will do little to tackle social injustices and give the most vulnerable in society the chance they deserve to climb the ladder of opportSocial Mobility Commission will do little to tackle social injustices and give the most vulnerable in society the chance they deserve to climb the ladder of opportsocial injustices and give the most vulnerable in society the chance they deserve to climb the ladder of opportunity.

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.

Hogan Lovells» chairman Nicholas Cheffings is to succeed Allen & Overy (A&O) senior partner David Morley as chair of legal social mobility initiative Prime next year.

Robin Allen QC, Chair of the Bar Council's Equality and Diversity and Social Mobility Committee, said the recent...

Robin Allen QC, Chair of the Bar Council's Equality and Diversity and Social Mobility Committee, said the recent publication of the Lammy Review was a major contribution to the important and urgent task of securing a fair and equal criminal justice system.

In this Legal Week video, deputy editor Charlotte Edmond talks to ITV director of legal affairs and third - party sales Barry Matthews, Hogan Lovells chair Nicholas Cheffings, head of Aspiring Solicitors Chris White and future Nabarro trainee Jay Whiting, about the future of social mobility in the legal profession.

The event will feature a debate with a panel of guests including Lucy Scott - Moncrieff — Director of Scott - Moncrieff & Associates Ltd and Chair of the Law Society's Equality and Diversity Committee; David Johnston — CEO of the Social Mobility Foundation; Chris Topping — Partner at Broudie, Jackson & Canter, Simao Paxi - Cato — YLAL and Invictus Chambers and James Wakefield — Director of the Council of the Inns of Court.

Law firms have further to go than in - house teams when it comes to cracking the issue of social mobility in the legal profession, according to Hogan Lovells chair Nicholas Cheffings.

The scheme enables talented state school students to spend a week undertaking work experience with barristers» chambers and attending talks, workshops and a reception hosted by the Chairman of the Bar, Michael Todd QC, and the Chair of the Bar Council's Social Mobility Committee, Taryn Lee QC.