Sentences with phrase «of social mobility in»

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.

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.

In this Legal Week video, deputy editor Charlotte Edmond talks to ITV director of legal affairs and third - party sales Barry Matthews, Hogan Lovells chair Nicholas Cheffings, head of Aspiring Solicitors Chris White and future Nabarro trainee Jay Whiting, about the future of social mobility in the legal profession.

What is revealed about the possibilities of social mobility in contemporary Pakistan in stories such as «Provide, Provide,» «In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,» and «Lily»?

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.

Westminster, in the top 10 for funding, is rated as giving its disadvantaged young people the highest chance of social mobility in the country.

Three new reports have been released with the focus on social mobility: The State of Social Mobility in the UK produced by Boston Consulting Group; Social Mobility and Economic Success produced by Oxera Consulting; and What the Polling Says, from Ipsos Mori.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Putnam ponders that question and reflects on what educators can do to help restore some measure of social mobility in our society.

In 2014, he published a Brookings Essay, Saving Horatio Alger, along with a video in which he used Lego bricks to illustrate levels of social mobility in the U.S..

Not exact matches

(Despite America's love of a good rags - to - riches story, the data backs him up that social mobility is actually lower in the U.S. than in many other developed countries.)

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.

He has significant experience in the technology areas of software, cloud - based computing, data management, application development, social media and mobility.

«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.»

The ugliest presentations of racism may have been pulled out, but it's clear that we're still dealing with the after - effects — even now, social mobility is less evident in black men who play by the rules than white men who don't.

Just as John Wesley is often credited with preventing a revolution in England at the time of the French Revolution because he had the working classes sitting in church when they could have been revolting, Britain's faithful and God - fearing serving class had little sense of the potential of social mobility (although this is explored when one of the footmen is accepted as a trainee chef at The Ritz).

These publicists are aware of the irony of their position — that their own «upward social mobility was, in large part, made possible by the struggles of those in the civil rights movement and the more radical black activists they now scorn.

The traditional Hindu caste system was the most perfect form of ascribed ranking: An individual's place in the social hierarchy was fixed at birth and, at least in principle, remained immutable throughout his life (at any rate, in this life» the Hindu idea that social mobility could occur in future incarnations is, alas, beyond the scope of sociology).

Both the biblical and philosophical humanisms that emerged in the first and second centuries C.E. were fostered by and responded to two enormous social changes: new discrepancies of status (the same person could occupy more than one role in a pluralistic and mobile society), and the downward mobility of values.

20 evangelical congregations during the period 1966 to 1970, they found that over 70 percent of the new members in these evangelical churches came from other evangelical churches, largely because of geographical or social mobility, while 20 percent of the new members were children of existing members; two groups which the mainline churches found difficult to hold.

«Unless the Government is prepared to put actions in place of warm words on marriage, we will see this great engine of social mobility become purely the reserve of the better - off.»

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

But the reality of US society means many will lose (though not relevant in this case, social mobility aka The American Dream is actually weaker than in some other developed countries).

(And to think, Paul the apostle wrote those words about a pagan Roman dictatorship persecuting Christians, while we live in the comparative comfort of a democratic republic with civil liberties, social mobility and economic opportunity!)

Most of the Ducks were born here, in a city ranked the worst in the nation in social mobility for young black males.

«High father involvement in a child's life is an important predictor of social mobility, of whether a child will outstrip the employment achievements of their parents.

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.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Social mobility in the UK has not improved since the 1970s, despite ten years of a Labour government, a report by the Sutton Trust finds today.

Another is the promise of economic growth, individual opportunity, and social mobility — all encapsulated in the American dream.

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.

«I want us to give millions of ordinary families and people in this country the opportunity to live a better life... What we want to do is genuinely address the cost of living and social mobility.»

These may be people who benefited early on from the UK's globalisation — in the Thatcher years — made some money on the stock market, ran a successful business, made the most of new opportunities for social mobility.

Population size and age, fertility, mobility, poverty, equity, and resource availability and consumption all influence the impact on the environment» «Nigeria should focus on more influence in advocacy of family planning, the need to enhance people's knowledge on the modern family planning especially in rural areas» said Fayehun According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as published on 21 June, 2017, global population will reach to 9.80 billion by 2050.

This conflation of two separate issues - the dynamics of English football and equality and social mobility in Britain - is a nonsense.

However, he suggested that we tend to be far better parents than citizens to such an extent that what we do for our children goes beyond legitimate partiality to harm the rest of society by keeping opportunity in the family and preventing social mobility.

This speech to the Fabian Society disproves Lammy's loyalist credentials unless he is making an inadvertent miscalulation in attacking Labour's record on social mobility — surely he must be in the wrong party to be deliberately exposing the divide between their aspiration and achievement from a position of government, and it beggars belief that a serious politician would undermine their own argument in this way after suggested he himself has been a beneficiary of the process.

don, didn't you know, it's all done in the name of «increasing social mobility».

Part of the problem with social mobility in Britain is that some people believe they are common and should stay in their place.

Social mobility is actually a left - safe way of talking about opportunity whereas in its heart the left wants equality of outcome If there is opportunity the argument for state control becomes weaker and the role of the left disappears and that is why it is commuited to maintaining poverty by rewarding idleness and creating an underclass

Addressing the Bridge Group's conference «Raising the Stakes: Collective Action in Pursuit of Social Mobility» at KPMG, Justine Greening...

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

«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.

I believe that the coalition, of which we are all part, will be judged, at least in part, on our ability to reverse that decline in social mobility.»

In calling for the promotion of social mobility, he was joined by Marcus Jones, who gained Nuneaton from Labour:

He proposed a left - right split, and offered a watery vision of what latter - day «modernisers» should be all about: a «renewed sense of moral purpose», reducible to the hoary New Labour emphasis on social mobility, and a politics that would «be seen to be grappling seriously with the big questions of the day: migration, globalisation, terrorism, the environment, welfare, housing, our place in the world».

a stronger commitment to social justice, reducing current levels of inequality in income, wealth and social mobility;

In their maiden speeches, Richard Graham highlights the perils of youth unemployment as David Mowat and Marcus Jones seek a reverse in the decline of social mobiliIn their maiden speeches, Richard Graham highlights the perils of youth unemployment as David Mowat and Marcus Jones seek a reverse in the decline of social mobiliin the decline of social mobility

In my view, social mobility is a hallmark of a civilised society.

As an asset based policy instrument it would have done much for social mobility in giving young people some sort of financial means to begin life with.

In spite of some good measures in recent years - Sure Start and the Academy programme for instance - social mobility has stalleIn spite of some good measures in recent years - Sure Start and the Academy programme for instance - social mobility has stallein recent years - Sure Start and the Academy programme for instance - social mobility has stalled.