Sentences with phrase «importance of social mobility»

She was also vocal about the importance of social mobility in ensuring that we continue to provide a good publicly - funded legal advice system — by ensuring there's a next generation of legal aid lawyers able to provide crucial advice and representation in those areas of law traditionally funded by legal aid.

Jonathan Simons, head of education at the right - leaning think tank Policy Exchange, said: «Given all the candidates have mentioned the importance of social mobility and improving life outcomes, and given Gove's previous role, it is likely to give education a welcome prominence in this campaign.»

Emphasises his belief in the importance of social mobility

David Willetts» unfortunate comment last week about higher education being a «burden on the taxpayer» suggests that not only will Liberal Democrat ministers have to continue to remind their Conservative colleagues of the importance of social mobility, but they will have to make the economic case for building a learning economy as well.

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This report highlights the importance of increasing social mobility and how the construction industry can work to promote greater equality of opportunity for all, particularly in a challenging social and economic environment.

There is no denying the importance of building new homes — to promote health, jobs and social mobility — especially when some five million people languish on national housing waiting lists.

The researchers concluded that, «It is difficult to overstate the importance of competition in advancing economic growth, technological progress, wealth creation, social mobility, and greater equality.

There has been increasing recognition of the importance of careers advice in promoting social mobility.

The reason why marketing schools in this way is such a successful method of attracting white, middle - class families is because of the «growing importance of educational attainment» in terms of the labor market and for upward social mobility (Dougherty, 2012, p. 220; Scherger & Savage, 2010).

Most local, state and national education reforms can be understood as reflecting the relative importance of the goals of democratic equality, social efficiency, and social mobility, and the irreducible tensions among these goals.

The building exemplified not only Peter Cooper's dedication to social mobility through education, but his recognition of the power of technology and the importance of art and design.

The Great Schism, the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the development of gunpowder, the dire economic circumstances brought on throughout Europe by the advent of the Little Ice Age, and the dislocations wrought by urban development, social mobility, and the Crusades, were all of crucial importance to the formation of the anxiety and insecurity that made the nominalist vision of the world believable.

While political commitment to social mobility and diversity may ebb and flow, the underlying importance of having a legal profession representative of our society, remains constant.

Their latest article highlights the importance of the subway: How it made NYC into NYC, how subways have built other cities around the world, and why it's crucial for the future of physical, economic, and social mobility.

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.

The overwhelming results proving the importance of parenting quality led James Heckman, Nobel Laureate in Economics, to conclude, «The proper measure of child adversity is the quality of parenting — not the traditional measures of family income or parental education... The scarce resource is love and parenting — not money» (Promoting Social Mobility, Boston Review).