Sentences with phrase «social mobility action»
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).
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Greening held a high - profile launch for her social mobility action plan before Christmas, and just days before her removal from the post, the education secretary announced a series of measures aimed at boosting literacy teaching.
«Our Social Mobility Action Plan set out measures to drive improvements in key skills including numeracy, targets areas that need the most support through our # 72 million Opportunity Areas programme and builds on the almost # 2.5 billion we provide each year to schools to help raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.»
Speaking exclusively to Schools Week after the launch of her social mobility action plan this morning, the education secretary defended her decision to focus on brighter disadvantaged pupils with the new future talent fund.
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».
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union comments on the social mobility action plan announced today by Justine Greening...
We can expect a «Social Mobility Action Plan'to be published in the next few days and, the fact that it has been in the pipeline for months but only being published after the Budget, means it is likely to include some new funding commitments.
We can expect both of these commitments to be confirmed in the Budget alongside the Social Mobility Action Plan.
This is part of the government's social mobility action plans «Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential», which was published on 14 December.
The work forms part of the government's commitment, set out in the recently published [Social Mobility Action Plan], to identify and spread «what works» so that successful approaches can be adopted more widely.
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«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.»
Urgent action must be taken to improve skill levels and how they are developed in order to boost productivity, wages and social mobility, according to a report from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), supported by the CBI and the TUC.
Also at 6:30 p.m., the National Action Network and Spectrum convene a special discussion on technology for economic mobility and social change featuring the Rev. Al Sharpton, state Sen. Brian Benjamin and business leaders, National Action Network's House of Justice, 106 W. 145th St., Manhattan.
Addressing the Bridge Group's conference «Raising the Stakes: Collective Action in Pursuit of Social Mobility» at KPMG, Justine Greening...
«The Government claim to have great ambitions to achieve higher social mobility, yet its actions are yet to reflect this assertion.»
Rose Rodriguez, Chief Diversity Officer of New York State, said: «Governor Cuomo has taken decisive action to empower New Yorkers by dismantling barriers to social and economic mobility and promoting equal access for all.
We will not fix the challenges of social mobility and opportunity by complaining; we have to take practical action.