Sentences with phrase «with social mobility»

Our diversity and inclusion programme includes a partnership with the Social Mobility Foundation offering work experience to young people from less privileged backgrounds that might otherwise not have the opportunity to access careers in the legal sector.

School Pupils Gain Taste of Life at the Bar 9 July 2012 — The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, will this week host the sixth annual Bar Placement Scheme in conjunction with the Social Mobility Foundation.

For such a move, grammar school campaigners would have to make the argument that academic selection goes hand in hand with social mobility.

Greening's current preoccupation is with social mobility, not the technicalities of the school system.

Perhaps we can all agree that the obsession with social mobility comes from our innately American caste and class fears, part of the national DNA passed down from our hugely idealistic founding documents and Washington, who refused the aristocratic mantle.

Education secretary Justine Greening has launched plans to raise education standards and «broaden the horizons» of young people in areas struggling with social mobility.

The Withdrawal of funding for 2016 was announced by the Education Funding Agency and has led to criticism that it is at odds with social mobility.

«We are making good progress with social mobility — we have increased the national living wage, cut income tax for the lowest paid and doubled free childcare.

We are insufficiently motivated to deal with the problems we face with social mobility.

Part of the problem with social mobility in Britain is that some people believe they are common and should stay in their place.

Not exact matches

His youth was surrounded by family members who struggled with substance abuse, violence, teenage pregnancy, and lack of social mobility.

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

The ugliest presentations of racism may have been pulled out, but it's clear that we're still dealing with the after - effects — even now, social mobility is less evident in black men who play by the rules than white men who don't.

In turn, the social mobility arising from the new market conditions — both upward and downward or across the seas — presented people with unprecedented life challenges.

Just as John Wesley is often credited with preventing a revolution in England at the time of the French Revolution because he had the working classes sitting in church when they could have been revolting, Britain's faithful and God - fearing serving class had little sense of the potential of social mobility (although this is explored when one of the footmen is accepted as a trainee chef at The Ritz).

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

(And to think, Paul the apostle wrote those words about a pagan Roman dictatorship persecuting Christians, while we live in the comparative comfort of a democratic republic with civil liberties, social mobility and economic opportunity!)

A parliamentary inquiry into parenting and social mobility has called on the next government to do more to encourage the UK's early years services to engage with men — and to fund a national reading campaign for dads and children.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

It's a tax that only affects the very wealthy, it taxes income that can otherwise go untaxed, people with vast amounts of wealth are already able to minimize its impact, and it helps to increase social mobility (reduce income inequality) by preventing the ultra wealthy from hoarding too much wealth.

It's a tax that only affects the very wealthy, it taxes income that can otherwise go untaxed, people with vast amounts of wealth are already able to minimize its impact, and it helps to increase social mobility (reduce income inequality) by preventing the ultra wealthy from hoarding too much...

Social mobility allows people to move up and down BUT it still leaves a load of people at the bottom with very little freedom.

«Rather than foster greater social mobility, this Government will only exacerbate the inequality and injustice we are already witnessing in our society, with children and young people bearing the brunt.»

The Conservatives will portray themselves as the party for the working families of Britain with new policies designed to revitalise social mobility, the party's leader has announced.

The Conservatives are aiming to portray themselves as the party for the working families of Britain with new policies designed to revitalise social mobility, the party's leader has announced.

«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.

He proposed a left - right split, and offered a watery vision of what latter - day «modernisers» should be all about: a «renewed sense of moral purpose», reducible to the hoary New Labour emphasis on social mobility, and a politics that would «be seen to be grappling seriously with the big questions of the day: migration, globalisation, terrorism, the environment, welfare, housing, our place in the world».

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.

As an asset based policy instrument it would have done much for social mobility in giving young people some sort of financial means to begin life with.

Prior to that, Cuomo also announced «the Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative,» a $ 25 million program to «bring together state and local government, non-profit and business groups to design and implement coordinated solutions to increase social mobility in ten cities with the highest poverty rates in the state.»

Yet unlike downstate, which is tethered to the NYC economic engine, upstate offers little chance for social mobility to unskilled workers or ones with erratic work histories.

In a highly unusual move, the Tory former education secretary Nicky Morgan joins forces with her previous Labour shadow Lucy Powell and the Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to condemn the plans as damaging to social mobility, ideologically driven and divisive.

It is crucial that the party develops new approaches to deal with the pressing challenges of the early 21st century, such as rising inequality, declining social mobility, global financial chaos and climate change.

With chapters in The Purple Book from Tessa Jowell, Peter Mandelson and Caroline Flint, all Blairite veterans, it's hard to ignore the clear Blairite focus on social mobility, education and devolution.

«The result is a segregated system with insufficient mobility between housing sectors and social divisions that are entrenched rather than overcome.»

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.

David Johnston, chief executive of the Social Mobility Foundation, also receives an OBE, as do Gerri McAndrew, chief executive of Buttle UK, former chief executive of the Fostering Network, and chair of the grant management panel at the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies, and Naomi Marek, chief executive of Sky Badger, which supports the families of children with disabilities or special educational needs.

While Ian Duncan Smith has been engaged in a slanging match with John Major, his department has been compounding rather than alleviating social struggles such as worklessness or stagnant social mobility.

New Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has launched a commission tasked with investigating Britain's low levels of social mobility.

He agrees that the fact that the cabinet is packed with people from private schools reflects badly on social mobility in Britain.

In 2014, he published a Brookings Essay, Saving Horatio Alger, along with a video in which he used Lego bricks to illustrate levels of social mobility in the U.S..

Progressive Conservatives are thrilled to see pay tariffs in the public sector on the agenda and pleased that free schools will be delivered in conjunction with a pupil premium to aid social mobility.

Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education ranks CCNY # 2 among public colleges with the greatest success in ensuring the social mobility of our student body; at the same time the Center for world University Rankings places it in the top 1.2 % of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence.

Dr. Nolan believes that applying exoskeleton - assisted walking in the inpatient rehabilitation setting will improve mobility, function, social participation and quality of life of young people with TBI.

Older adults can become malnourished due to a variety of changes; taste receptors dull with aging; limitations in mobility make cooking more cumbersome, leading to canned soup or cereal as a «main»; losses of partners and peers lead to social circle diminishment and depression, making one's world smaller and less interesting.

«The conversation [with the primeminister] was simply around the fact that she wanted me to move into the Department for Work and Pensions, I feel so passionately about social mobility and equality of opportunity, to me that was the overriding thing that I wanted to put my time into.»

Marking its official launch, the charity has released its new «Ambitious for Every Child» report, which examines student progress in the new «Opportunity Areas», identified by the government as areas of low social mobility and targeted with # 60 million of investment.

BECSLink's role as the social mobility network, together with their partners from national and local businesses, education charities, and sports and arts organisations are helping us supply outstanding resources and learning opportunities for students and teachers not only from our school, but also from other local schools.»

We also know from our work with schools and young people, that levels of numeracy are key barriers to social mobility.

To give every child a real chance at the social freedom and economic mobility promised by the American dream, schools have to partner with their communities.