Sentences with phrase «lack of social mobility»

Vernon Kay kicked - off proceedings, extolling the virtues of great teachers and the staggering lack of social mobility in the UK which means young people from poorer background have just a one in three chance of getting good GCSEs.

Lead researcher Professor Les Mayhew, Cass Business School, said many of the differences in life expectancy between districts can be explained by unhealthy lifestyles and a lack of social mobility and investment.

Warsi says lack of social mobility and immigration are contributing to BNP support, and implies it can be laid at the door of the government.

His youth was surrounded by family members who struggled with substance abuse, violence, teenage pregnancy, and lack of social mobility.

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Facebook needs to appreciate that their dominance of social on the PC was an artifact of the PC's lack of mobility and limited application in day - to - day life.

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.

The Conservative party under Mr Cameron's stewardship has faced criticism for a lack of genuine policies, and the appointment of shadow home secretary David Davis to lead a new social mobility taskforce will initially do little to change this perception.

The lack of supply of affordable homes has a detrimental impact on the mobility of social housing tenants - many languish on transfer lists for more than two years.

Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility Commission, said: «When low income young people from the same area with the same school results are progressing less than their better - off classmates, that is not about lack of ability.

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.

This obsession with grammar schools as organs of social mobility is naïve and shows a lack of understanding of the nature of poverty.

While those of us with less ambitious expectations might instead have predicted more money to support the government's forthcoming social mobility action plan, the chancellor actually announced new incentives to boost take up of post-16 maths (a subject which isn't particularly suffering from a lack of entrants).

A lack of social interaction, the death of peers, and mobility limitations may make recovery long and difficult.

SQE1's content «leaves a lot to be desired», the lack of proscribed routes will lead to a «market free - for - all» and Crisp has «serious concerns» about the new exam's potential impact on social mobility and diversity.