Sentences with phrase «on social mobility which»

Last week, former minister Alan Milburn delivered a report on social mobility which criticised universities» performance in recruiting students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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And free discussion is, for Rorty, «simply [my italics] the sort which goes on when the press, the judiciary, the elections, and the universities are free, social mobility is frequent and rapid, literacy is universal, higher education is common, and peace and wealth have made possible the leisure necessary to listen to lots of different people and think about what they have to say» (CIS 84).

Whether we point to «secularization» or «modernization» or merely mobility and rising levels of education, the cultural and social base on which the once - dominant denominations built their fiefdoms has all but disappeared — the lingering reality of racial division being the glaring exception.

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 February, an all - party parliamentary group on social mobility called for character education, which includes mindfulness, to be part of the curriculum.

And Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb said in the same newspaper: «The referendum campaign highlighted deeply entrenched divisions in parts of Britain's society which demands a One Nation response focused on improving social mobility and breaking down barriers to opportunity.»

Social mobility is core liberal stuff, but in 2012, the legacy of cuts, tuition fees, EMA and other contentious coalition - bred proposals like the Beecroft Report will be a battleground on which Clegg must win.

Social mobility is better facilitated when early education includes these elements, enabling young people to take ownership of their working life and capitalise on every opportunity which comes their way.

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.

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.

This is part of the government's social mobility action plans «Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential», which was published on 14 December.

New research by the Social Mobility Commission has uncovered a progression gap between choices made by children on free school meals and their more affluent peers which can not be explained by their results at school or where they live.

The Department's strategy to improve social mobility has so far centred on identifying 12 «Opportunity Areas» which are local authority districts where educational performance and capacity to improve is low.

The research, which is published with the Sutton Trust's response to the government's consultation on providing more good school places, raises serious concerns about using grammar schools in their current form as a vehicle for social mobility.

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

According to the social mobility action plan, which is called «unlocking talent, fulfilling potential», the future talent programme will «trial approaches and present clear recommendations on what works» to support «the most able disadvantaged children, particularly during key stage 3 when they so often fall behind».

This data has not appeared for 2015/16 and is not a statutory requirement for being displayed on the websites of individual schools which means that unless there is a proactive approach to ensuring that there is a consistent view across all schools then this approach may well act as a mechanism to enhance social mobility challenges for the children within the most vulnerable schools.

Clegg joined forces with former education secretary Nicky Morgan and ex-shadow education secretary Lucy Powell today to lead the debate on grammar schools and social mobility, in which he called for an end to the government's new «fetish» with selection.

The polling is being published ahead of a Sutton Trust summit in New York with philanthropic support from Carnegie Corporation of New York today (19 April) which will draw on international evidence on the role of school structural reform, accountability, professional development and the use of research in schools in improving social mobility.

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.

Grammar schools are no better for the brightest pupils than good comprehensives, according to new research which casts doubt on the government's claim that selective education aids social mobility.

Epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett studied income inequality in America's 50 states and the 23 richest countries in the world - excluding those with populations below 3 million, those that are tax havens, or those from which they could not get reliable data - to track the effect of income equality on quality of life, health and life expectancy, rates of violence, social mobility, and educational performance.

Grayson Perry comments: «The tapestries tell the story of class mobility, for I think nothing has as strong an influence on our aesthetic taste as the social class in which we grow up.

In a video interview with Legal Week, in which he discusses everything from globalisation to social mobility and the impact of technology on the profession, Morley is candid about progress to date in the US.

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.