Sentences with phrase «facts on social mobility»

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.

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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.
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).
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