Sentences with phrase «work on social mobility»

As a not - for - profit organisation, we are committed to projects that will improve education and outcomes for children and young people, such as our recent work on teacher recruitment and retention, and our work on social mobility.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.»

Researchers from York's department of Social Policy and Social Work and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine brought together a global community of researchers and writers to produce the «Handbook on Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility».

«Researchers would always like less restrictive access,» says Miles Corak, an economist at the University of Ottawa who has helped develop data sets on social mobility while working for Statistics Canada.

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.

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

«Oiling the wheels» to making apprenticeships work best for employers was clearly needed, Mr Way explained: «We need to focus on specific opportunities, such as ensuring the levy works for employers, using the political consensus around apprenticeships to secure stability in the skills system and defining a role for the new Institute for Apprenticeships that will provide everyone with confidence that apprenticeships are achieving their ambitions for productivity growth and social mobility.

The Commission has called on the government to rethink its plans for grammar schools and more academies, cautioning that there is no evidence either works to improve social mobility.

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.

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».

Work on the her flagship social mobility opportunity areas policy is still in its infancy, and consultations on strengthening qualified teacher status and a new sex education curriculum are still underway.

«shares the strong commitment of this Government to promoting and improving social mobility and building a country that works for everyone; notes that there are now more than 1.4 million pupils in England attending good or outstanding schools than in 2010; and welcomes the opportunity afforded by the Schools that Work for Everyone consultation to seek the widest possible range of views on how the Government can build upon these successes and awaits the outcome of the current consultation.».

He is also a patron of both Grief Encounter (see Martin's Radio 5 interview on Grief) and the Social Mobility Business Partnership and works with the John Schofield Trust to help young journalists looking for mentors.

Pinder has spent time in Dakar, Mexico City, Khartoum and Hanoi working on projects that deal with race, identity and social mobility.

What is evident in this collection of works is the power of mobility providing reflective perspective on the social state of play in communities these artists share, care and relate.

The Great Schism, the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the development of gunpowder, the dire economic circumstances brought on throughout Europe by the advent of the Little Ice Age, and the dislocations wrought by urban development, social mobility, and the Crusades, were all of crucial importance to the formation of the anxiety and insecurity that made the nominalist vision of the world believable.

«Today, the Commission has taken another important step towards fighting work - related cancer and other relevant health problems on the work floor,» commented Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, Marianne Thyssen.

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.

The ranking assesses organisations on their social mobility efforts across a range of different areas including outreach to schools, work experience, mentoring and opportunities for school leavers.

«Many of them believe that more hands - on opportunities, such as those offered by apprenticeships and work experience, should be readily available to help young people secure meaningful employment, to boost their social mobility prospects.