Law firms have further to go than in - house teams when it comes to cracking
the issue of social mobility in the legal profession, according to Hogan Lovells chair Nicholas Cheffings.
Social mobility
The issue of social mobility is what appears to be at the heart of the debate, with supporters saying it is good for social mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrounds.
May used her maiden speech to focus on
the issue of social mobility and running a government that «works for everyone».
Education Secretary Justine Greening responded by saying that «no country in the world» has managed to «crack
the issue of social mobility yet» and argued that «grammars can have potentially a transformational impact in some of the most deprived communities where we want to see the biggest changes».
From the moment I was elected leader I have made the whole
issue of social mobility an organising principle for us.
«Mark's work will focus on issues related to income inequality and the growing and pressing
issue of social mobility.»
Not exact matches
«As Hispanic Catholics in the U.S achieve upward
mobility, they may become a little more conservative on
social justice and concern for the poor,» Dillon says, «but currently many
of the
issues that are especially important to Catholics in Latin America are also very important to Hispanic Catholics in the U.S.»
This conflation
of two separate
issues - the dynamics
of English football and equality and
social mobility in Britain - is a nonsense.
«Absent a universal licensing or registration requirement, no agency has a complete accounting
of all the adult day service programs that are operating in the state,» DiNapoli said
of programs that provide meals and
social activities to seniors who typically are dealing with
mobility issues.
While no longer at the top table
of government, his passion for Brexit and
issues surrounding
social mobility remain well fuelled.
Rather, Labour would want to incentivise the behaviour
of universities around
issues such as regional development, apprenticeship degrees, and
social mobility.
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Even though inequality has lately come to the fore as a public
issue, two widely held American beliefs persist — first, that the U.S. is largely a classless society and, second, that people shed or discard the vestiges
of their
social class roots when they achieve upward
mobility.
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.
Accredited BECSLink Communities become the heartbeat
of an integrated community
of business, education, charity and sports and arts organisations that want to address
social mobility issues through creating opportunities for young people.»
As well as being a former member
of the Commons Education Select Committee, Mr Hinds once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on
Social Mobility — a key
issue for both the prime minister and Ms Greening.
As well as being a former member
of the Commons Education Select Committee, he once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on
Social Mobility — a key
issue for both the prime minister, and his immediate predecessor, Justine Greening.
National education charity Future First — which works to break down barriers caused by
social mobility issues — has partnered with Greenergy, the UK's leading road fuel supplier and Europe's largest manufacturer
of biofuel from waste, to inform state school students about the skills necessary to succeed in the energy and fuel industry.
Educational policy to promote
social mobility and counter the effects
of poverty became a central
issue for the United States during the 1960s.
Because annual state testing is still obligatory under ESSA, and the vast majority
of states are still using the Common Core, the only news story worth emphasizing related to this
issue is that congressional «spending committees have generally ignored the Trump blueprint»: the president's lack
of influence at present means that non-rich Americans have no practical means
of avoiding sticking with the status quo
of the two previous administrations, a test - based accountability strategy that has here been no more effective in promoting
social mobility than it has in its original setting, Margaret Thatcher's Britain.
The
issue of teaching character, which until now has mainly been debated within the ivory towers
of academia, is suddenly all the rage in policy circles in the UK, in the wake
of the report by the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on
social mobility, and shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt's latest speech.
Ministers have provided no evidence
of how extra grammar schools will increase the
social mobility of our young people — an
issue more pronounced in the midlands and the north, as Craig Whittaker rightly pointed out.
Many
of these
issues of limited
mobility were rooted in
social class.
Whether or not this is true, I have been discussing this in a series
of blogs on school choice (School Choice, a
social mobility issue?
Julie Mehretu, born in Ethiopia and raised and educated in Michigan and Rhode Island, explores the unwieldy
issues of mobility,
social organization, political entanglement, and global competition in her large abstract paintings.
Discussions around this
issue have resulted in schemes such as PRIME — a
social mobility initiative launched by 23 major law firms in September last year, which will see participating firms provide an annual number
of work experience placements to eligible students that is equivalent to 50 %
of their trainee intake.
Cheffings, who has taken over leadership
of the PRIME work experience initiative, was speaking as part
of a recent Legal Week roundtable on
social mobility, in which leading players in the diversity movement discussed the
issues that still need to be dealt with by the profession.
DWF has supported this legal sector alliance to overcome the
issue of restricted
social mobility and access to the legal profession through meaningful work experience, since 2012.
In a preview to its forthcoming business plan for its first year in operation, the Board said it would «broker constructive working relationships between the profession, its regulators and the providers
of legal education; and ensure that diversity and
social mobility issues» are at the heart
of its work.