Sentences with phrase «on social mobility policy»

Before moving to Devon last September she was a governor of several schools and trustee of several charities, and remains the founding Chair of the Bridge Group, a charity focusing on social mobility policy.

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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.

I just wonder how much effect ANY of these policies really have on social mobility outcomes.

On Mrs May's policy platform, some 51 % of respondents said grammar schools are «good for social mobility,» although only 47 % backed grammar selection through the 11 - plus exam.

Researchers from York's department of Social Policy and Social Work and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine brought together a global community of researchers and writers to produce the «Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility».

Our ultimate goal is meaningful change in policy and practice that produces substantially larger impacts than current best practices on the learning capacity, health, and future economic and social mobility of vulnerable young children.

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.

«Despite all the evidence showing the harmful effects on social mobility, the government is committed to delivering a policy for the few at the expense of the many,» said Mr Hobby.

Work on the her flagship social mobility opportunity areas policy is still in its infancy, and consultations on strengthening qualified teacher status and a new sex education curriculum are still underway.

She has demonstrated an absolute commitment to social mobility, to addressing the serious difficulties in teacher recruitment and retention, and to developing education policy on the basis of evidence.

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.

I know that many Government Members share the view of Labour Members that education is the key to social mobility, and that for all our differences on policy, they would not want the Government to waste the Department for Education's budget on an ineffective vanity project.

As Susie Cagle at Pacific Standard notes, «a policy that judges an individual's qualifications based on the qualifications of her social network would reinforce class distinctions and privilege, preventing opportunity and mobility and further marginalizing the poor and debt - ridden.»

David Brooks, in his Jan. 3 New York Times column, suggested that the new Congress focus not on the size of government but on what he calls the Achievement Test: «Does a given policy arouse energy, foster skills, spur social mobility, and help people transform their lives?»