He agrees that the fact that the cabinet is packed with people from private schools reflects
badly on social mobility in Britain.
Not exact matches
This may be
bad news for
social mobility, since children raised by married parents typically do better in life
on almost every available economic and
social measure.
The research
on social mobility shows that people are optimistic that education will get better, but think job security and housing will get
worse.
«Having made
social mobility the centre of his conference speech, David Cameron should look at the clear evidence
on grammar schools: they do not increase equality of opportunity, they make it
worse,» said Powell.
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.
At the beginning of the year, grammar schools were still firmly
on the government's agenda, despite two EPI reports and countless other experts explaining how
bad it would be for
social mobility, and there was no planned increase to the schools budget, despite fears of a funding crisis.
This may be
bad news for
social mobility, since children raised by married parents typically do better in life
on almost every available economic and
social measure.