Sentences with phrase «into social mobility»

More than half of aspiring legal aid lawyers earned less than # 25,000, according to a new study into social mobility by the Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL) published earlier this month.

The figures have been branded as «appallingly low» by Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Vye and led to an inquiry into social mobility within the county's grammar schools.

The poorest children in Wales are being let down by the Welsh Labour Government, Aled Roberts AM has argued today following the publication of the second «State of the nation» report into social mobility and child poverty.

Not exact matches

This inequitable situation translates into less opportunity and social mobility for everyone, and is having a corrosive effect on everything from health outcomes to social cohesion and the functioning of our democracy.

Other human rights violations that affect everyone, like a lack of food and mobility through the social classes, also affect women and young girls more harshly, often leading them into prostitution just so they can afford basic necessities.

A parliamentary inquiry into parenting and social mobility has called on the next government to do more to encourage the UK's early years services to engage with men — and to fund a national reading campaign for dads and children.

In Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity, the new New Right skate around the world looking for examples of approaches that will help Britain bring growth to the sluggish economy, reform the education system, boost social mobility and social justice and abolish the slide into mediocrity.

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.

Higher education We await Lord Browne's final report into higher education funding, and will judge its proposals against the need to: - increase social mobility; - take into account the impact on student debt; - ensure a properly funded university sector; - improve the quality of teaching; - advance scholarship; and, - attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Proved to be the best way of getting good results from a low cost and best at social mobility — getting students from non traditional and less privileged backgrounds into elite universities and courses.

Social mobility, having flatlined in the latter part of the last century, would go into reverse in the first part of this century.

«Now, that for me thrown social mobility into reverse because it's a very small group of people who can afford to work for free in London.

«Even when adjusted to take into account socioeconomic factors and health behaviours (physical activity, tobacco, alcohol, nutrition) in adulthood, associations remained very significant, especially among women, who were often less susceptible to benefit from social mobility.»

«The conversation [with the primeminister] was simply around the fact that she wanted me to move into the Department for Work and Pensions, I feel so passionately about social mobility and equality of opportunity, to me that was the overriding thing that I wanted to put my time into.»

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.

(If it ain't broke, etc.) Yet all the news about flat NAEP results and bleak PISA and TIMSS scores, to say nothing of the hand wringing over international competitiveness and waning social mobility, don't seem to have penetrated very far into the public's continued faith in their local schools.

Instead of the proposed plans to bring selection back into England's education system, Milburn recommended a series of policies that would be more effective for improving social mobility.

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.

None of the lowest - funded 20 authorities makes it into the top 50 for social mobility.

If «Republican's» make inroads into the cities under the guise of» opportunity and social mobility» Changes will occur exponentially, starving public school budgets, «jury - rigging» political processes etc..

KCC has said it is looking for better social mobility, allowing more children from all walks of life to get into grammar schools.

«ATL is totally committed to improving social mobility to give all young people the opportunities to go into further and higher education, and into any job or career they chose.

A major piece of research by the Education Policy Institute into grammar schools and social mobility has been published today.

Higher education should be a means of social mobility and intellectual liberation, but it has devolved into an industry that exploits students for profit.

Hogan Lovells and Baker & McKenzie have signed up for a new contextual recruitment tool, which hardwires social mobility metrics into a firm's existing graduate recruitment system.

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.