Sentences with phrase «social mobility issues»

In a preview to its forthcoming business plan for its first year in operation, the Board said it would «broker constructive working relationships between the profession, its regulators and the providers of legal education; and ensure that diversity and social mobility issues» are at the heart of its work.

The trust claimed to be «lifting the veil on its prevalence» to shine a light on «important social mobility issues» surrounding the differences in children who get extra tuition.

National education charity Future First — which works to break down barriers caused by social mobility issues — has partnered with Greenergy, the UK's leading road fuel supplier and Europe's largest manufacturer of biofuel from waste, to inform state school students about the skills necessary to succeed in the energy and fuel industry.

Accredited BECSLink Communities become the heartbeat of an integrated community of business, education, charity and sports and arts organisations that want to address social mobility issues through creating opportunities for young people.»

Social mobility The issue of social mobility is what appears to be at the heart of the debate, with supporters saying it is good for social mobility as it give the most gifted better chances through a better education, and the detractors warning it leaves behind those that don't pass the entrance test, who are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Whether or not this is true, I have been discussing this in a series of blogs on school choice (School Choice, a social mobility issue?

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Alexander Chan is a Hongkonger with a fond interest in China & Hong Kong's political and socioeconomic development, especially issues related to social mobility.

«Mark's work will focus on issues related to income inequality and the growing and pressing issue of social 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.»

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

«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.

While no longer at the top table of government, his passion for Brexit and issues surrounding social mobility remain well fuelled.

From the moment I was elected leader I have made the whole issue of social mobility an organising principle for us.

Rather, Labour would want to incentivise the behaviour of universities around issues such as regional development, apprenticeship degrees, and social mobility.

The social mobility commission, set up by Nick Clegg under the coalition government, advises ministers on the issue and monitors progress.

ERA - MORE, European Network of Mobility Centres Part of the Mobility Portal project, gives you information about tax, social security, child care issues, and more to make your move around Europe easier.

Even though inequality has lately come to the fore as a public issue, two widely held American beliefs persist — first, that the U.S. is largely a classless society and, second, that people shed or discard the vestiges of their social class roots when they achieve upward mobility.

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.

Education Secretary Justine Greening responded by saying that «no country in the world» has managed to «crack the issue of social mobility yet» and argued that «grammars can have potentially a transformational impact in some of the most deprived communities where we want to see the biggest changes».

May used her maiden speech to focus on the issue of social mobility and running a government that «works for everyone».

And in the Washington Post, compassionate conservative Michael Gerson argues that issues like divorce and teenage pregnancies are what's dampening social mobility.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, Mr Hinds once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister and Ms Greening.

As well as being a former member of the Commons Education Select Committee, he once chaired the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility — a key issue for both the prime minister, and his immediate predecessor, Justine Greening.

Here, Matt Lent explains how Future First are delivering opportunities to young people to boost their confidence and raise aspirations, by tackling issues around social mobility...

And today, in the Washington Post, compassionate conservative Michael Gerson argues that issues like divorce and teenage pregnancies are what's dampening social mobility.

Educational policy to promote social mobility and counter the effects of poverty became a central issue for the United States during the 1960s.

The Ofsted study will also consider what can be done to tackle issues such as schools «curriculum narrowing», and promoting social mobility.

Because annual state testing is still obligatory under ESSA, and the vast majority of states are still using the Common Core, the only news story worth emphasizing related to this issue is that congressional «spending committees have generally ignored the Trump blueprint»: the president's lack of influence at present means that non-rich Americans have no practical means of avoiding sticking with the status quo of the two previous administrations, a test - based accountability strategy that has here been no more effective in promoting social mobility than it has in its original setting, Margaret Thatcher's Britain.

«We have serious issues about social mobility, in particular white working - class young people, and I don't think that having more grammar schools is going to help them,» he said.

She said that a possible solution is «small, agile teams» focused on cross-cutting issues — such as social mobility in opportunity areas.

«When you look over the domestic policy landscape, you see all these different people in different policy silos with different budgets: in health care, education, crime, poverty, social mobility and labor force issues.

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.

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.

Many of these issues of limited mobility were rooted in social class.

Julie Mehretu, born in Ethiopia and raised and educated in Michigan and Rhode Island, explores the unwieldy issues of mobility, social organization, political entanglement, and global competition in her large abstract paintings.

Discussions around this issue have resulted in schemes such as PRIME — a social mobility initiative launched by 23 major law firms in September last year, which will see participating firms provide an annual number of work experience placements to eligible students that is equivalent to 50 % of their trainee intake.

Social mobility in particular is such an important issue as young people trying to qualify face enormous hurdles including student debt, unpaid or low income work experience placements, and fewer legal aid firms offering training contracts.»

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.

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.

DWF has supported this legal sector alliance to overcome the issue of restricted social mobility and access to the legal profession through meaningful work experience, since 2012.

Movement from one job to another is an important mechanism for social and economic mobility, and childhood mental issues seem to inhibit it.