Sentences with phrase «to improve social mobility»

The scheme aims to harness young people's ideas to raise aspirations and improve social mobility in the community.

The plans set out how each area will spend # 6 million of funding, aimed at improving social mobility.

Some 72 % of people also thought «good and meaningful» enterprise education and experiences in schools improve social mobility, which has the potential to transform young people's life chances.

Cities will run out of room Making it easier to take mass transit will also improve social mobility and expand access to economic opportunities to more members of society.

If our nation is serious about improving social mobility then our secondary schools have got to start delivering for these children.

Improving social mobility implies maintaining or even increasing access to higher education.

According to the survey, 52 % of the «senior figures in the legal industry» polled said that improving social mobility in the legal profession would be beneficial to their firm.

Improving social mobility through education is key but experts are unanimous that her reheated grammar school policy is not the way to achieve it.

Grammar schools are not improving social mobility for poor pupils, the Chief Inspector of Ofsted claims.

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

The Chief Inspector of Ofsted has said grammar schools are not improving social mobility for pupils from poorer backgrounds.

«My department has renewed its focus on ensuring everything we do drives towards improving social mobility with an emphasis on not just the most disadvantaged families but also on those that are just about managing.

However, responses were mixed when it came to grammar's effect on social mobility: 35 per cent held the view that grammars improve social mobility, while 19 per cent thought they damaged social mobility and a further 27 per cent believed they made no difference at all (20 per cent of respondents said they didn't know).

«A far more effective means of improving social mobility would be to address the funding crisis which is affecting all schools, as this would have the greatest benefit for all young people.»

Everything this coalition does is guided by our belief in the need to improve social mobility after it stagnated under the Labour party.

Greening added that she wants her legacy to be based around improving social mobility and that the teaching profession is vital in helping the country.

When asked which measures would most likely improve social mobility and help disadvantaged young people get on in life, almost half of respondents (47 per cent) chose «high - quality teaching in comprehensive schools», ahead of two social mobility policies adopted by the main parties in the recent election.

The Trust believes that ring - fenced funding, where high - potential pupils are tracked and monitored, would help to improve social mobility by widening access to top jobs and universities.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw rejected these arguments, saying that improving social mobility depended on making sure that children are not falling behind at any early age.

It is a foundation which improves social mobility in the UK through evidence - based programmes, research and policy advocacy.

Greening said she wants her legacy to be improving social mobility so that it «doesn't matter where you grow up you have the same chance to meet your potential».

Measures taken by the company to improve social mobility include:

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He founded the Sutton Trust in 1997 to improve social mobility through education and remains the Trust's chairman.

Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: «Closing the attainment gap between poorer pupils and their classmates is our best shot at improving social mobility.

Harvard economist Raj Chetty identified policies that can improve social mobility for children.

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.»

While 23 per cent of people polled believed that grammar schools should be forced to accept children of all abilities, 35 per cent said they believed that grammars improve social mobility, with only 19 per cent thinking they damage social mobility and a further 27 per cent saying they make no difference at all.

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders» union NAHT, said: «There is a wealth of evidence that selection at 11 works against the government's stated ambition of improving social mobility.

Angela Rayner MP, the shadow education secretary said: «This report from the government's own Social Mobility Commission shows that their policies will not improve social mobility in Britain.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is also ranked the top law firm for improving social mobility in the workplace by the Social Mobility Foundation Employer Index 2017.

We know that improving social mobility is by definition a long - term enterprise.

The overriding priority for our social policy is improving social mobility.

The coalition's latest drive to improve social mobility is struggling to escape criticism that new social mobility tsar James Caan gave jobs to two of his daughters.

The paper illuminates his backing for new grammar schools (May has at least one former minister on side with this policy it seems) coupled with concentrating on non-graduate routes into professions, encouraging kids to start - up businesses, among other ideas to improve social mobility.

It was indeed a brilliant attempt to improve social mobility and aspiration.

It will allow the electorate to judge whether Clegg and his team have improved social mobility.

More grammar schools are not the answer to improving social mobility and preparing Britain for the future

Bootle MP Peter Dowd claimed the newcomers were copying his own party's policies anyway: «Reports suggest that the new party's «potential policy proposals include asking the rich to pay a fairer share of tax, better funding for the NHS and improved social mobility.»

Whether in the fight against poverty or efforts to create environmental sustainability and improve social mobility, the Labour party is a «roadblock to progress».

He said private schools should not be abolished but claimed that, while only 7 per cent of children go to them, they are damaging Labour's attempts to improve social mobility and create a fair society.

To improve social mobility we must nurture the poorest in society, but nature will always hold some people back, says Philip Collins in The Times (#)

The Department for Education has just published its national plan to improve social mobility in young people; at the heart of their strategy is the ambition to close the language gap that develops between the most and the least disadvantaged children in our society.

The plans, first outlined by Prime Minister Theresa May, form a core part of her education reforms, including plans to open new grammar schools, which she claims will raise education standards, give more pupils access to a high quality education and improve social mobility.

Pupil Premium The pupil premium, which was introduced to improve social mobility in education, has also driven increased money in some schools, although this should of course be limited to expenditure on supporting children eligible for free school meals, who may also have additional learning support requirements.

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has warned that plans to lift the ban on opening new grammar schools in England «may improve social mobility for a very small number of disadvantaged children, but not for the vast majority».

Lucy Powell, the Shadow Education Secretary, said: «Nothing is more important for raising standards and improving social mobility than ensuring there are excellent teachers in every school.

He said: «There is no evidence that increasing the number of selective schools will improve social mobility and we are concerned that it will have the reverse effect.

The Commission has called on the government to rethink its plans for grammar schools and more academies, cautioning that there is no evidence either works to improve social mobility.