Sentences with phrase «focus on social mobility»

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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«Mark's work will focus on issues related to income inequality and the growing and pressing issue of 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.

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But given she's speaking primarily to MPs, I'd probably focus hard on the traditional Conservative approach to social mobility and meritocracy.

Gordon Brown will call for a greater focus on improving social mobility in a keynote speech later today.

«But, returning to 11 plus will not increase social mobility, and we should focus on raising standards in 3,000 secondary schools.»

Meanwhile Crabb sought to position himself as the compassionate Conservative heir to David Cameron, making an upbeat speech focused on life opportunities and social mobility.

And Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb said in the same newspaper: «The referendum campaign highlighted deeply entrenched divisions in parts of Britain's society which demands a One Nation response focused on improving social mobility and breaking down barriers to opportunity.»

Promoting a core liberal value like social mobility is exactly what the party should be focusing on to turn our recent poll figures around.

Greening said: «Did I take a fourth cabinet role, running a fourth department, or did I carry on focusing on the issue that really drove me into politics and matters to me hugely which is social mobility, equality of opportunity.

May used her maiden speech to focus on the issue of social mobility and running a government that «works for everyone».

Speaking at the House of Lords Social Mobility Select Committee, Wilshaw suggested too many head teachers are focussed on keeping school budgets strong rather than providing the best opportunities for pupils.

«Oiling the wheels» to making apprenticeships work best for employers was clearly needed, Mr Way explained: «We need to focus on specific opportunities, such as ensuring the levy works for employers, using the political consensus around apprenticeships to secure stability in the skills system and defining a role for the new Institute for Apprenticeships that will provide everyone with confidence that apprenticeships are achieving their ambitions for productivity growth and social mobility.

His professional life has been dedicated to the advancement of empirical methods in the social sciences, with a focus on the economics of education and its implications for inequality and social mobility.

Educational activities focus on employment and job training, community involvement, mobility, safety, daily living skills, academics, health, recreation, leisure and social communication skills.

An ISC spokesperson said partnerships would focus on the six areas identified as social mobility cold spots by the government.

Dr. Trent has also focused on the impacts of race and ethnicity on social stratification and mobility, as well as on equality of opportunity.

We may each have our own answers, and Dr. David Labaree of Michigan State University, posed three general goals in his 1997 article: «democratic equality - schools should focus on preparing citizens; social efficiency - schools should focus on training workers; and social mobility - schools should prepare individuals to compete for social positions.»

The opportunity areas programme, a flagship government scheme that will see # 72 million distributed across 12 areas of England to boost social mobility, focused heavily on improving teachers.

Speaking exclusively to Schools Week after the launch of her social mobility action plan this morning, the education secretary defended her decision to focus on brighter disadvantaged pupils with the new future talent fund.

May used a report, commissioned by the Labour - run Knowsley borough council, to rebut concerns raised by former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell that the government's focus on grammar schools was hindering social mobility progress.

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

She said that a possible solution is «small, agile teams» focused on cross-cutting issues — such as social mobility in opportunity areas.

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

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, delivering his State of the State address along with a budget proposal heavy on infrastructure, laid out an ambitious social agenda on Wednesday that focuses on problems not so easily solved with cash: the erosion of confidence in the criminal justice system, public schools and teachers that he said were failing students, and a creeping sense that economic mobility is not what it once was.

Her research interests revolve around stratification and mobility in educational institutions with a focus on the role of cultural processes and social network inequality.

He sees the city landscape as a metaphor for social construction and focusses on traces of urban development and forms of signage orchestrating mobility.

The debate around social mobility in the law almost exclusively focuses on City firms.

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For the purpose of this Call, papers addressing the social determinant of housing should focus on efforts to increase the availability of opportunities to access safe, affordable, and connected housing (e.g. the impact of housing mobility programs), to improve housing stability, or reduce the negative impacts of gentrification and displacement.

David Brooks, in his Jan. 3 New York Times column, suggested that the new Congress focus not on the size of government but on what he calls the Achievement Test: «Does a given policy arouse energy, foster skills, spur social mobility, and help people transform their lives?»