Sentences with phrase «point of social mobility»

What's the point of social mobility if it still leaves some in the gutter, asks Zoe Williams in The Guardian

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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.

The report, launched by social mobility tsar Alan Milburn, includes a call for the government to commit to end youth unemployment by 2020, with greater provision of quality apprenticeships, and points out that the professions are set to expand dramatically.

But you also believe in the promise of social mobility, and can point to examples of schools — even mediocre ones — that have helped some kids escape the ghetto or the barrio or the reservation.

It argued that the point of greatest leverage for social mobility is what happens between the ages of 0 and 3, mainly at home, but «you can also break the cycle through education».

The same analysis for secondary schools shows grammar schools, academically selective at age 11, are by far the most biased towards more affluent pupils -LRB--98.8 percentage points)-- suggesting they aren't quite the «engines of social mobility» some grammar school advocates say they are.

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.

The exhibition addresses topics related to class, family, friendship, affection, social mobility, bionomies, management of power, administration of life, definition of the private and the public, distribution of the sensitive, dualisms and separatism, among others; from an autobiographical point of view that from the personal speaks on the conditions of the contemporary artistic practices and ways of life today.