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English Social Mobility Index for 2022
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NEU comment on ONS social mobility report
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  • Jan 25, 2022
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Katharine Birbalsingh: New social mobility chief challenges assumptions
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Goldman Sachs starts trading floor apprenticeship scheme to boost diversity
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Social mobility chief ‘feels sorry’ for privately educated children who are ‘not taught properly’
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Social mobility tsar feels 'sorry' for private schools
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England’s most selective universities worst for social mobility, report finds
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Disadvantaged young people four times more likely to become socially mobile if they attend university
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Russell Group responds to new plans and research on access and participation
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Improve student job prospects or lose funding, universities warned
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England’s most prestigious universities failing to boost social mobility, IFS finds
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  • Nov 24, 2021
Russell Group universities ordered to help poorer students get best jobs
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UK’s ‘strictest’ headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh made social mobility chief
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England’s ‘strictest headteacher’ Katharine Birbalsingh appointed social mobility tsar
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Liz Truss says Whitehall and business should ditch quotas as she hires Britain's toughest head teacher to become new social mobility tsar
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Birbalsingh to be appointed as chair of Social Mobility Commission
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Focus on ‘equality of opportunity’ not quotas, Government urged
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Young people across England invited to take part in major new study
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The ‘tiger headmistress’ who’s the opposite of woke – and just what schools need
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‘Tiger headmistress’ Katharine Birbalsingh to be new head of social mobility commission
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SMC response to GCSE and A level results 2021
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  • Aug 2, 2021
Scotland: Attainment gap 'narrowing' but change deemed too slow
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State of the nation 2021: Social mobility and the pandemic
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  • Jul 21, 2021
Steve McQueen: I won’t speak at Oxford, says Oscar-winning director
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  • Jul 21, 2021
SMC calls for children to be put centre stage of pandemic recovery
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  • Jul 20, 2021
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  • Jul 20, 2021
Social Mobility Commission's 2021 State of the Nation report - AoC responds
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  • Jul 20, 2021
Sutton Trust responds to the Social Mobility Commission’s ‘State of the Nation’ report
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  • Jul 20, 2021
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  • Jul 20, 2021
Scrap Sats to tackle learning gap, DfE told
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  • Jul 20, 2021
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  • Jul 20, 2021
Pupil premium should be introduced for FE, say experts
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  • Jul 2, 2021
Disadvantaged pupils fearful over exam grades
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Two in five disadvantaged pupils believe they will receive unfair grades - poll
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Degree apprenticeships – passing or failing the social mobility test?
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Our obsession with Oxbridge means we're missing out on lots of young talent
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One of UK's poorest areas faces 'desert of aspiration' due to lack of A Level provision
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  • May 31, 2021
What does Engineering tell us about social mobility?
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Social mobility study to assess lockdown effect on teenagers in England
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Universities Minister speaks to TASO conference
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  • Apr 16, 2021
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  • Mar 30, 2021
Least advantaged students gain a lot from going to university – compared to what they would earn if they didn't
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  • Mar 21, 2021
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Lee Elliot Major: A way forward for the Social Mobility Index
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  • Mar 16, 2021
Prioritise education to tackle pandemic-fuelled inequality, say public
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  • Mar 11, 2021
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David Phoenix responds to Peter Scott on the Social Mobility Index
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SMC responds to Budget 2021
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  • Mar 4, 2021
HEPI Debate Paper 27: Designing an English Social Mobility Index by Professor David Phoenix
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  • Mar 4, 2021
No two journeys: Ethnic minorities
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  • Feb 19, 2021
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FE White Paper: what does it mean for social mobility?
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Housing wealth, not bursaries, explains much of private school participation for those without high income
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Extra uni or college year could ‘solve lost learning’ says social mobility commissioner
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  • Jan 23, 2021
Barber: capping student numbers would stifle social mobility
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  • Jan 20, 2021
Tony Blair son plans big expansion for training firm valued at $200m
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  • Jan 19, 2021
No two journeys: Disability
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  • Jan 19, 2021
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  • Jan 7, 2021
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  • Dec 10, 2020
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children and young people to get extra education support
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Universities and business must both commit to greater social mobility
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2021 exam plans welcome - but don't forget less privileged pupils
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Social mobility champion Sir Peter Lampl hails Oxbridge effort
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  • Nov 28, 2020
Opportunity areas get extra year, but cash cut by 25%
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  • Nov 27, 2020
To boost social mobility, we must first accept that it does not yet exist
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  • Nov 25, 2020
Neglect of white working class children in the UK is a national disgrace
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  • Nov 23, 2020
Understanding downward social mobility
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  • Nov 18, 2020
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  • Nov 18, 2020
Poor parenting in white working class families to blame for low aspirations, MPs told
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  • Nov 17, 2020
Announcing a new corporate partnership with Boult Wade Tennant
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  • Nov 17, 2020
Universities may face sanctions if they fail most disadvantaged
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  • Nov 17, 2020
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  • Nov 11, 2020
'Mine is a proper Labour story': from free school meals to shadow schools minister
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  • Nov 10, 2020
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  • Oct 11, 2020
The long shadow of deprivation: differences in opportunities
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  • Oct 6, 2020
School closures lead to lower social mobility and billions in lost earnings for the covid generation
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Fundamental reset of society needed to prevent decline in social mobility in the post-covid era
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New research highlights the postcode lottery of social mobility
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Education alone will not close social mobility gap - study
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The long shadow of deprivation: Report highlighting differences in opportunities
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  • Sep 15, 2020
The long shadow of deprivation
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  • Sep 15, 2020
Education is part of the answer to social mobility, but not all
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  • Sep 15, 2020
Children raised in hard-up families have a higher chance of doing well if they live in southern England, report suggests
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  • Sep 15, 2020
Disadvantaged young men earn 50% less in economic ‘cold spots’
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  • Sep 15, 2020
Britain's obsession with school uniform reinforces social divisions
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  • Sep 5, 2020
We need an urgent inquiry into the role of the welfare state to tackle widening inequality in Britain
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  • Sep 2, 2020
To give pupils the best chances in life, look at inequalities outside the school gates | Owen Jones
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  • Aug 20, 2020
The schools scandal
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Addressing the digital divide in education
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  • Aug 12, 2020
Exams and lockdown: how the pandemic threatens social mobility at university
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  • Aug 12, 2020
Selection in state schools needn’t be divisive | Iain Martin
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  • Aug 7, 2020
Social mobility and segregation in schools
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  • Jul 31, 2020
Economic impacts: The pandemic and access to the workplace
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  • Jul 29, 2020
Redirecting the disadvantaged into FE will further stunt UK social mobility
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  • Jul 29, 2020
Anxious middle-classes look to private schools after coronavirus disruption
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  • Jul 26, 2020
Reflections on the APPG on social mobility
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  • Jul 23, 2020
Moving out of somewhere, moving on to nowhere?
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  • Jul 23, 2020
Internal migration and social mobility - moving out to move on
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  • Jul 23, 2020
Do you need to leave your home area to achieve a better life?
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  • Jul 23, 2020
'Where you can afford to move decides job chances'
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  • Jul 23, 2020
True social mobility – false dichotomies in the new post-compulsory policy
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  • Jul 22, 2020
Minister: university entry is ‘simplistic’ social mobility measure
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  • Jul 21, 2020
A rejoinder to Michelle Donelan: true social mobility and higher education
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  • Jul 18, 2020
Ministers announce opportunity areas ‘twinning’ project to help address impact of Covid-19
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  • Jul 17, 2020
Social mobility does not depend on attending university, says minister
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  • Jul 15, 2020
Starting out in social mobility: our interns reflect on their experience
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  • Jul 9, 2020
University changed my family's life. So why do ministers want fewer people to go? | Chris Husbands
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  • Jul 2, 2020
Social mobility in education: A mixed picture
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  • Jul 2, 2020
Universities are taking advantage of teens by charging mega bucks for Mickey Mouse courses
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  • Jul 2, 2020
Surge in trendy degrees letting students down
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  • Jul 1, 2020
Universities Minister calls for true social mobility
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  • Jul 1, 2020
Minister: students ‘taken advantage of’ on ‘dumbed down’ degrees
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  • Jul 1, 2020
UCU response to universities minister's speech on social mobility
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  • Jul 1, 2020
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  • Jul 1, 2020
Focus on English and maths risks creating 'cultural apartheid', warns social mobility expert
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  • Jun 30, 2020
We must finally confront and defeat childhood poverty
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  • Jun 29, 2020
When will we stop selling the lie of social mobility?
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  • Jun 28, 2020
How to get the most from apprenticeships: guidance to employers
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  • Jun 26, 2020
Apprenticeship system 'failing disadvantaged young people'
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  • Jun 24, 2020
The reformed apprenticeship system need not fail the young and disadvantaged
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  • Jun 24, 2020
Disadvantaged workers being ‘failed’ by apprenticeships system, government advisers warn
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  • Jun 24, 2020
Apprenticeships and social mobility
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  • Jun 24, 2020
Apprenticeships and social mobility: fulfilling potential
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  • Jun 24, 2020
Apprenticeships 'are not delivering social mobility'
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  • Jun 24, 2020
Social Mobility Commission finds apprenticeship system ‘failing’ young disadvantaged people
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  • Jun 24, 2020
Report: Apprenticeship levy 'fails the disadvantaged'
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  • Jun 24, 2020
Coronavirus UK: School closures could 'undo' social mobility
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  • Jun 11, 2020
Inequality will worsen unless ministers act, says thinktank
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  • Jun 11, 2020
'Lack of joined-up thinking' by Government impeding social mobility, says watchdog
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  • Jun 10, 2020
Sustainable Degree Apprenticeships report launched with recommendations to boost productivity and social mobility
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  • Jun 10, 2020
Coronavirus: Child poverty predicted to rise warns social mobility watchdog
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  • Jun 10, 2020
Monitoring social mobility 2013 to 2020
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  • Jun 10, 2020
Government savaged by its own social mobility tsar for failing to act on 7 years of pleas
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  • Jun 10, 2020
Attainment gap 'not closing despite curriculum changes'
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  • Jun 10, 2020
Tony Blair’s push for half of all young people to go to university slammed by his own son Euan
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  • Jun 8, 2020
Tony Blair's son Euan says UK's 'one-size fits all' university education risks 'skills crisis'
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  • Jun 7, 2020
'Obsession' with university has divided society, says Tony Blair's son
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  • Jun 7, 2020
Political engagement shouldn’t be a question of class. A new project is examining the gap and what to do about it
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  • Jun 4, 2020
Social mobility, fairness, and Black Lives Matter
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  • Jun 4, 2020
COVID generation faces 'dark age' of low social mobility
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  • May 28, 2020
Pandemic damages life prospects of all young Britons, report says
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  • May 28, 2020
Government social mobility tzar Dame Martina Milburn resigns
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  • May 5, 2020
Letter from Dame Martina Milburn to the Prime Minister
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  • May 5, 2020
Chair of Social Mobility Commission resigns
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  • May 5, 2020
Digital divide could take social mobility back a decade
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  • May 1, 2020
Coronavirus: Working-class parents are less confident home-schooling, survey finds
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  • Apr 10, 2020
The expert in social mobility who says education cannot make it happen
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  • Mar 17, 2020
Admissions of guilt: Why the social makeup of our schools matters
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  • Mar 2, 2020
New cabinet shows that access to top jobs still unequal
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  • Feb 19, 2020
Why superficial compliance with research is dangerous
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  • Feb 10, 2020
Is Britain failing its white working class boys?
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UCL Institute of Education launches new research centre
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  • Feb 3, 2020
How can we help more deprived students to choose courses that will lead to higher earnings?
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Social mobility and youth social action: Whole Ed 2020
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  • Jan 31, 2020
Bonding social capital is a powerful force; we ignore it at our peril
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  • Jan 27, 2020
Report on public attitudes towards social mobility and education
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  • Jan 27, 2020
Free schools planned to tackle North-South divide
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  • Jan 26, 2020
Thousands of pupils let down by schools in north of England
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  • Jan 26, 2020
Iain Mansfield responds to today’s paper on social mobility and grammar schools
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) findings
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Grammar schools 'unequivocally damage social mobility'
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Social Mobility and Higher Education: New report suggests grammar schools are not the answer
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Gap between rich and poor university students ‘remains stark’ as little evidence shows interventions work
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Social mobility is hampered by grammar schools
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Academics take aim at ‘flawed’ grammar school study
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Sutton Trust on social mobility
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  • Jan 22, 2020
Class distinction: Are the UK's elites getting further away from the rest of the population?
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  • Jan 22, 2020
High-quality apprenticeships key to improving social mobility in the UK, says new report
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  • Jan 22, 2020
Two-thirds of socially mobile people have stayed where they grew up
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  • Jan 22, 2020
Social mobility barometer poll results for 2019
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  • Jan 21, 2020
Improving attainment in the FE and adult learning sector
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  • Jan 21, 2020
Why further education needs its own 'What Works Centre'
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  • Jan 21, 2020
Social mobility 'more down to schools than government'
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  • Jan 21, 2020
Call for Treasury to invest £20m in FE research centre
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  • Jan 21, 2020
No easy answers – Oxbridge interviews: The teacher’s perspective
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  • Jan 17, 2020
Boris Johnson vows to rip up apprenticeship rules to help poor white kids ‘climb the ladder of opportunity’
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  • Jan 15, 2020
Social justice must be the beating heart of our education policy
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  • Jan 14, 2020
Independent schools as vehicles of social mobility? Digging deeper into the statistics
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  • Jan 13, 2020
Black pupils’ charity will now help white children
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  • Jan 5, 2020
How can we create a 'socially just' school system?
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  • Jan 3, 2020
Grammar schools receiving share of £50m government fund struggle to attract poorer children, figures suggest
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  • Dec 31, 2019
The Office for Students responds to ‘Social mobility and elite universities’
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Data reveals biggest gap between rich and poor university students in a decade
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The Office for Students respond to ‘Social mobility and elite universities’
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  • Dec 17, 2019
A welcome argument, but only half of the argument
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  • Dec 12, 2019
Social mobility: 'We need a school admissions lottery'
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Students mismatching with courses affects their future life chances
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Colleges need certainty to deliver promise of social mobility
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  • Nov 29, 2019
Selective schooling: A suitable vehicle for social mobility?
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  • Nov 27, 2019
Teens from East Midlands least likely in England to go on to leading universities
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  • Nov 27, 2019
The next London Challenge
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  • Nov 25, 2019
The Social Mobility Commission and the Education Challenge
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  • Nov 22, 2019
Waning opportunity?
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  • Nov 20, 2019
Almost half of the public say today’s youth will be worse off than their parents
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  • Nov 20, 2019
New study reveals that two-thirds of the working class are socially mobile
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  • Nov 15, 2019
Election pledges must have social mobility at their heart
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  • Nov 7, 2019
£18m funding boost for Opportunity Area programme
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  • Nov 4, 2019
Lack of school libraries 'a social mobility time bomb'
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  • Oct 17, 2019
We must break the stranglehold private schools have on social mobility
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  • Oct 14, 2019
Social Mobility Commission strategy 2019
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  • Oct 2, 2019
I thought I’d made it when I got to Cambridge University. How wrong I was | Daniella Adeluwoye
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  • Sep 23, 2019
Opportunity areas, 'Bercow: 10 Years On': S31 grant determination and letter
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  • Sep 9, 2019
Prioritise social mobility in spending review, urges chair and co-chair of cross party group
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  • Aug 30, 2019
MPs call for 16-19 funding to be 'urgently' increased
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  • Aug 30, 2019
Johnson government must press ahead with teacher bursaries reform, say MPs and peers
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  • Aug 30, 2019
Closing the GCSE attainment gap can’t be up to schools alone | Letters
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  • Aug 22, 2019
Letter from the Social Mobility Commission to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
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  • Aug 22, 2019
Poorer young people increasingly shun university
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  • Aug 15, 2019
Social class still stops too many pupils from fulfilling their A-level potential | Mary Richardson
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  • Aug 15, 2019
Knowing the right people more important than a university degree
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  • Aug 15, 2019
Number of students who think going to university is important drops, survey finds
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  • Aug 15, 2019
A levels: Doubling in pupils who say uni is not important
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  • Aug 15, 2019
Young people more sceptical of need to go to university, poll finds
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  • Aug 15, 2019
How well-off and healthy were my parents when I was little? Am I a hard-working high flier, or an advantaged one?
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  • Aug 12, 2019
'Social mobility' ignores what really holds pupils back
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  • Aug 9, 2019
Elitist Britain: Segregation in schooling & privileged pathways to power
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  • Aug 8, 2019
Universities face fines if they fail the disadvantaged
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  • Aug 2, 2019
Higher education policy priorities for the new prime minister
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  • Jul 31, 2019
‘Symbolically posh’ Bristol University expanding to wrong side of tracks
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  • Jul 30, 2019
New social mobility figures ‘a wake up call’ for new PM
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  • Jul 30, 2019
Old school ties? The educational background of Boris Johnson’s cabinet
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  • Jul 29, 2019
Social mobility is not just about moving to richer areas
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  • Jul 29, 2019
Two-thirds of Boris Johnson's cabinet went to private schools
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  • Jul 25, 2019
Almost two-thirds of new cabinet attended independent schools
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  • Jul 25, 2019
Two-thirds of Boris Johnson's Cabinet were privately educated, research says
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  • Jul 25, 2019
Two-thirds of Johnson’s new cabinet privately educated
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  • Jul 25, 2019
Boris Johnson’s cabinet is most privately-educated for generation, analysis finds
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  • Jul 25, 2019
Universities 'should take students' backgrounds into account'
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  • Jul 25, 2019
As Boris Johnson – another Prime Minister who went to Eton – enters office, it's time to end private school privilege
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  • Jul 23, 2019
Opportunity Areas inquiry chair flags concerns in letter to Hinds
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  • Jul 19, 2019
New prime minister must invest in teachers and leaders to boost social mobility, charity tells commission chair
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  • Jul 19, 2019
‘Shocking’ social divide in music and sport take-up
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  • Jul 19, 2019
Extra-curricular activities, soft skills and social mobility
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  • Jul 19, 2019
Poorest children three times more likely to miss out on extra-curricular activities, study finds
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  • Jul 19, 2019
Where’s the evidence?
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  • Jul 19, 2019
Legally privileged: law’s perpetual social mobility problem
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  • Jul 18, 2019
Opportunity areas: Committee Chair writes to Secretary of State for Education
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  • Jul 17, 2019
Education committee chair 'unconvinced' opportunity areas improve social mobility
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Concerns over DfE's £72m social mobility programme
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  • Jul 17, 2019
Education committee ‘unconvinced’ by £72m opportunity areas programme
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  • Jul 17, 2019
One in five teachers say nothing would make them work in disadvantaged school, survey suggests
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  • Jul 10, 2019
Labour must be bold, and finally abolish private schools | Steven Longden
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  • Jul 9, 2019
Selective education and social mobility | Letters
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  • Jul 2, 2019
Britain’s elites still look different from the society they serve
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  • Jun 26, 2019
The Guardian view on social immobility: time to rebalance | Editorial
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  • Jun 25, 2019
ISC response to “Elitist Britain 2019” report
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain is still ruled by a privately educated elite. Let’s end this culture of deference | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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  • Jun 25, 2019
UK: Privately educated getting five times as many top jobs as the rest of us
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Elitist Britain – Sutton Trust/Social Mobility Commission report
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  • Jun 25, 2019
ASCL comment on ‘Elitist Britain’
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain's most powerful people 5 times more likely to go to private school
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Why are Britain’s most powerful positions still dominated by private school alumni?
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Elite five times more likely to have private education
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain ‘increasingly divided’ with most influential people five times more likely to have gone to private school
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  • Jun 25, 2019
More vice-chancellors with Oxbridge educations appointed
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain’s elite still drawn from fee-paying schools
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Private school and Oxbridge 'take top jobs'
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain's most powerful people 'more likely to have attended private school'
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Britain’s top jobs still in hands of private school elite, study finds
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Admissions shake-up call as report reveals lack of diversity in top roles
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Privately educated elite tightens its grip on politics and the professions
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Elitism in Britain, 2019
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  • Jun 24, 2019
Elitist Britain 2019
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  • Jun 24, 2019
Social mobility in Great Britain – more heat than light?
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  • Jun 24, 2019
Public anger over private schools | Letters
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  • Jun 24, 2019
Spending review submission for skills focuses on productivity and social mobility
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  • Jun 24, 2019
Schools cannot be held responsible for social mobility
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  • Jun 22, 2019
Communication skills initiative launches in social mobility 'coldspot'
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  • Jun 20, 2019
Pupil premium: If it's so powerful, why stop it at 16?
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  • Jun 19, 2019
Social Mobility Commission admits making little impact
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  • Jun 18, 2019
4 things we learned from the Social Mobility Commission’s education committee hearing
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  • Jun 18, 2019
Education Secretary Damian Hinds warns two-thirds of the UK's worst-off children are white British
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  • Jun 17, 2019
Education Secretary challenges misconceptions of disadvantage
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  • Jun 17, 2019
Private schools can serve the public well | Letters
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  • Jun 17, 2019
Damian Hinds: home shapes a child's future more than school
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  • Jun 17, 2019
Social mobility will remain a priority for the next prime minister, insists Hinds
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  • Jun 17, 2019
Social mobility is good, it’s just not everything
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  • Jun 17, 2019
GCSE gap for pupils who needed social worker
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dfe Social mobility
  • Jun 16, 2019
Chair of the Social Mobility Commission questioned in accountability hearing
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  • Jun 14, 2019
Why Corbyn is right to ditch social mobility | Dawn Foster
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  • Jun 11, 2019
Business must speak up for kids from poor families
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  • Jun 11, 2019
Why schools and colleges should talk more
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  • Jun 10, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn: Children's talents being squandered
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  • Jun 8, 2019
Is social mobility a dirty word?
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  • Jun 8, 2019
Why the battle to save BTECs must be won
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  • Jun 5, 2019
On social mobility, Augar pays the price for politics
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  • Jun 3, 2019
Augar Review: through the lens of social mobility
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  • Jun 3, 2019
Plans to reform UK student finance would reverse social mobility
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  • Jun 3, 2019
Damian Hinds: "Character and resilience are key to social mobility"
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  • May 27, 2019
It’s a marathon, not a sprint
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  • May 24, 2019
Research, anti-semitism, social mobility, car parking (podcast)
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  • May 17, 2019
Lords debates equal opportunities for young people
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  • May 15, 2019
Zahawi defends Opportunity Areas initiative to MPs
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  • May 15, 2019
London Met v-c: PM wants us to fail, but we’re not going anywhere
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  • May 15, 2019
Are our children’s prospects fading?
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  • May 15, 2019
Cutting off social mobility plan would be 'terrible', minister says
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  • May 14, 2019
DfE accused of 'micromanaging' independent evidence to MPs
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  • May 14, 2019
It's time we stopped persecuting Britain's real strugglers: the privately educated | Owen Jones
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  • May 13, 2019
Pathways to law: Making a difference
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  • May 10, 2019
A bit of ‘polish’ will not spur social mobility
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  • May 7, 2019
In the news 3 May 2019
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Colleges Strikes Pay De-mergers BAME Attainment gap Ethnic minorities Social mobility Grants Funding Contextual admissions EU students Tuition fees Overqualified
  • May 3, 2019
Is there more that can be done in primary schools to change stagnation of social mobility?
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  • May 1, 2019
Opportunity areas suffer from lack of cross-government support, MPs warned
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  • May 1, 2019
May has completely failed to tackle the UK's burning injustices, says Corbyn
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  • May 1, 2019
Poverty is holding Britain’s young people back. They deserve so much better | Lola Okolosie
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  • May 1, 2019
If we're serious about social mobility then it must be easier for the middle-classes to fail
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Free childcare and unconditional university offers are making social mobility worse says watchdog
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Social mobility in Great Britain - state of the nation 2018 to 2019
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Class privilege remains entrenched as social mobility stagnates
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  • Apr 30, 2019
CBI responds to Social Mobility Commission report
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  • Apr 30, 2019
​​​​​​​Social Mobility Commission report highlights damage done by grant cuts
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  • Apr 30, 2019
ASCL comment on Social Mobility Commission report
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Social mobility commission tells Ofsted to 'move beyond' 'harmful' inspection grades
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Investment we make in young people is very low compared to other countries
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Extend 30 hours to more families, urges social mobility body
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Social mobility
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Addressing social inequality
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  • Apr 30, 2019
State of the Nation report: Inequality in UK 'entrenched'
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Inequality remains entrenched in UK, says Social Mobility Commission
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  • Apr 30, 2019
30 hours policy 'entrenches inequality' says social mobility watchdog
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Commission calls for 16-19 student premium
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Social mobility in UK 'virtually stagnant' since 2014
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  • Apr 30, 2019
UK social mobility has stalled, warns commission
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Gap between rich and poor pupils ‘stagnating’
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DfE urged to give long-term poor more pupil premium cash
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Increase 16-19 funding by ‘significant amount’, Social Mobility Commission urges
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  • Apr 30, 2019
From apprentice to leader: Developing the next generation of engineers
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  • Apr 23, 2019
Universities are about social mobility. This needs to be recognised | Justine Greening
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  • Apr 17, 2019
ONE Vision Schools launch: Major new investment in North East schools
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The placement panacea
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  • Apr 11, 2019
Groups applying to open fully selective faith schools with government funding revealed
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  • Mar 27, 2019
Scotland: Edinburgh politicians give cool reception to ‘random ballot’ plan for school catchment areas
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  • Mar 27, 2019
Use ballots to allocate places at Scotland's top state schools, says major report
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  • Mar 26, 2019
New Sutton Trust report calls for fairer admissions across Great Britain
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  • Mar 26, 2019
Alison Wolf: ministers ‘increasingly aware’ of HE growth failings
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  • Mar 26, 2019
Most of Scotland's best state schools 'in the 20 per cent wealthiest areas'
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  • Mar 26, 2019
Lee Elliot Major: university access heading for ‘perfect storm’
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  • Mar 26, 2019
When will Britain acknowledge our countryside poverty?
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  • Mar 22, 2019
Maintained nurseries: 'the jewel in the social mobility crown'
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  • Mar 22, 2019
Erasmus gave me an opportunity I would never otherwise have had | Eloise Millard
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  • Mar 22, 2019
Why school attendance really matters for social mobility
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  • Mar 21, 2019
Is social justice central to education policy?
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  • Mar 15, 2019
Government drive to boost attainment in North East schools
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  • Mar 14, 2019
Why learning another language is still a sign of privilege
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  • Mar 13, 2019
Time for action: the UK must act now to improve skills or risk falling further behind in the world
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  • Mar 11, 2019
How apprenticeships can help address social mobility
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  • Mar 7, 2019
Close the regional attainment gap – and kick start social mobility in this country
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  • Mar 6, 2019
Realising the social mobility promise of apprenticeships
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  • Mar 6, 2019
Cambridge offers places only for deprived
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  • Mar 6, 2019
Augar should set out a new vision for tertiary education
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  • Mar 6, 2019
Early years policy should tackle the social mobility divide
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  • Mar 4, 2019
Is sector expansion harming social mobility?
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  • Mar 4, 2019
Current HE funding supports universities’ social mobility mission
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  • Mar 4, 2019
New hub aims to help universities eliminate equality gaps
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  • Feb 28, 2019
MPs call for expanded Pupil Premium to boost social mobility
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  • Feb 27, 2019
Scottish universities still out of reach for poorer pupils
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Review of ‘Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Private School Problem’
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  • Feb 27, 2019
Grammar school expansion still locking out the poor
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Danger of fee cuts for social mobility
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  • Feb 21, 2019
Urgent need to tackle social mobility 'coldspots', say MPs
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Gap likely to grow in social mobility 'coldspots'
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ASCL response to APPG report on social mobility
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Social mobility ‘coldspots’ likely to fall back further
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  • Feb 21, 2019
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  • Feb 21, 2019
Colleges need support if social mobility is to be improved
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  • Feb 21, 2019
Social mobility cold spots will get worse unless action is taken to close attainment gap, MPs warn
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UCU response to MPs' social mobility report
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  • Feb 20, 2019
Why Britain’s private schools are such a social problem
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  • Feb 18, 2019
England lacks white working-class graduates. Quick fixes won’t change that | Phil McDuff
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  • Feb 18, 2019
The universities where less than five per cent of places go to working-class white students
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  • Feb 15, 2019
Children in 'Opportunity Area' have improved outcomes
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Oxford and Cambridge have fewer than 3% poor white students, study finds
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  • Feb 14, 2019
Half of universities in England have fewer than 5% poor white students
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Half of universities have fewer than 5% poor white students
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  • Feb 14, 2019
The Guardian view on private schools: motors of unfairness | Editorial
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  • Feb 12, 2019
Boost grammars: they're the engine of social mobility
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  • Feb 12, 2019
Russell Group university outreach programmes flounder as half admit fewer state school students than previous year
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  • Feb 7, 2019
The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged
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Linking university loans to grades would punish mature students | David Latchman
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  • Feb 1, 2019
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Poorer students less likely to study history at GCSE under government reforms, study says
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  • Jan 30, 2019
Help the low skilled ride out the rise of the robots
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Ring-fence training funds for older men
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Low-skilled adults are missing out on training: the skills gap
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Social Mobility Commission report warns of ‘virtuous’ and ‘vicious’ cycle of adult learning
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  • Jan 29, 2019
Government must prioritise and invest in training for low-skilled workers, social mobility commission says
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  • Jan 29, 2019
Record number of poorest Scots studying at university full-time
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  • Jan 17, 2019
OSA chief: Number of poor pupils at grammars ‘not increased in the ways hoped for’
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Huge spending disparities in flagship DfE social mobility programme
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Grammar schools are revolutionary for disadvantaged pupils
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Grammar schools and access to universities: HEPI report not an accurate or complete picture
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  • Jan 10, 2019
Pupils from the poorest families are twice as likely to get into Oxbridge if they attend a grammar school
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  • Jan 10, 2019
Grammars ‘are vital for social mobility’
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  • Jan 10, 2019
Britain’s social mobility problem has been misunderstood – education is not the great leveller
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  • Jan 8, 2019
University fees cut would hurt mobility and aid rich, PM told
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  • Jan 5, 2019
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  • Dec 27, 2018
Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 14 December
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Wonkhe Weekly – E12 Access, UCAS data, commuters, social mobility
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Sutton Trust respond to Social Mobility Commission relaunch
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SMC relaunch with 12 new commissioners and bigger research budget
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Young highly sceptical of social mobility
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Only one in seven young people think they have best chance of social mobility, survey finds
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Schools 'doing too little on social mobility'
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Relaunched Social Mobility Commission finds 'deep unease' about gap between rich and poor
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Social Mobility Commission to relaunch with £2m research budget
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Cutting tuition fees could hurt poorer students, claims social mobility tsar
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  • Dec 9, 2018
Social mobility tsar warns cuts to tuition fees may not help poorest students
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Slim pickings from government during 2018
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  • Dec 9, 2018
‘This is about social mobility’: Academy trust boss defends exclusions record
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Opportunity areas grant: S31 grant determination and letters
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Government must do more for ‘left behind’ children, says Ofsted chief
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Apprenticeships for all
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  • Nov 29, 2018
How to bridge Scotland’s attainment gap | Dr Geetha Marcus
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  • Nov 28, 2018
We are facing a literacy and numeracy crisis – we need dedicated resource to tackle it
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  • Nov 26, 2018
We have a responsibility for tomorrow’s society as well as today’s individuals, says leading school Head
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  • Nov 19, 2018
School system 'too narrowly focused on the academic'
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  • Nov 14, 2018
Improving social mobility could address UK’s engineering skills shortage
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  • Nov 13, 2018
Call for 'social mobility impact assessments' following our 30 hours investigation
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  • Nov 13, 2018
When routine bites hard and ambitions are low
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  • Nov 2, 2018
Lords debates early intervention in children's lives
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  • Nov 2, 2018
Cut heads' power to expel, urges ex-education secretary
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Education Secretary appoints new Social Mobility Commissioners
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  • Oct 31, 2018
Lords debates early intervention in children's lives
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  • Oct 31, 2018
Education Secretary appoints new Social Mobility Commissioners
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  • Oct 31, 2018
Twelve new social mobility commissioners appointed
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  • Oct 31, 2018
Do schools help or hinder social mobility?
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  • Oct 31, 2018
IPPR North comment on Autumn Budget
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  • Oct 29, 2018
Social mobility drives are all talk and no action | Jenni Russell
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  • Oct 25, 2018
Poorest students almost three years behind wealthy peers in UK, study finds
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  • Oct 24, 2018
Too many young people missing out on education and employment in opportunity ‘cold spots’ across England
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  • Oct 24, 2018
Poorest students almost three years behind wealthy peers in UK, study finds
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  • Oct 23, 2018
Disadvantaged children do better at school if in a minority, finds report
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  • Oct 23, 2018
Educational disadvantage starts from age 10
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  • Oct 23, 2018
Launch of new OECD PISA Equity report – EPI response
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NEU comment on Equity in Education
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  • Oct 23, 2018
Equity in Education: Breaking down barriers to social mobility
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Report warns that Opportunity Areas are ‘too led’ by DfE
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  • Oct 19, 2018
Schools use social mobility money to appoint senior leaders
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  • Oct 19, 2018
Wonkhe Weekly – E5 Social mobility, colleges week, “non academics”, and cowboys
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  • Oct 18, 2018
We need to reach children before they decide university isn't for them | Christopher Birchall
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  • Oct 18, 2018
Cambridge still closing doors to students from poorer backgrounds
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  • Oct 18, 2018
Partnership Boards combined with DfE local delivery teams are leading the way for change in Opportunity Areas
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  • Oct 17, 2018
Councils in 'catch 22' over excluded pupils
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  • Oct 17, 2018
Opportunity areas are 'too heavily led' by the DfE
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Fewer poorer pupils going into jobs or university
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  • Oct 16, 2018
Head of ‘Eton of the East End’ appeals for donors to keep up with private schools
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No ups no downs
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  • Oct 9, 2018
DfE announces investment in North East
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  • Oct 8, 2018
A modern economy needs thriving modern universities, says MillionPlus Vice-Chancellor
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£24m boost for North East schools
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Ambition School Leadership & Institute for Teaching comments on education secretary’s £24million for the north east announcement
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  • Oct 8, 2018
The apprenticeships ladder of opportunity: quality not quantity
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  • Oct 8, 2018
Education Secretary launches £24 million programme for employers and universities to seek out all the talent in the North East of England
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  • Oct 8, 2018
Westminster School wants brains, not fees
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  • Oct 7, 2018
Cambridge University to offer poor students year long free course to give them a 'leg up'
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  • Oct 4, 2018
Cambridge University to offer 'dozens' of poorer students free year of study
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‘Opportunity hoarders’ block social mobility for poor pupils
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Cambridge plans to recruit poorer students
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Cambridge University plans scheme to open door to poorer students
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  • Oct 1, 2018
CEOs outstanding contribution to social mobility celebrated at retirement event
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Greening: Treasury sees education as cost not investment
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  • Sep 30, 2018
The opportunity gap: Why are we still failing young people from disadvantaged backgrounds?
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  • Sep 28, 2018
Social mobility’s enemies
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  • Sep 27, 2018
Social mobility requires far more than a good education | Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin
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  • Sep 27, 2018
Britain’s dying dream of social mobility
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  • Sep 26, 2018
Subject squeeze hitting poorer pupils hardest
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Party conferences must focus on social mobility
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Make quality and sustainability a key part of Labour’s higher education plans, says MillionPlus
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  • Sep 24, 2018
School of hard knock-backs: how to engage schools and colleges
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  • Sep 24, 2018
The equality indicators are quietly flashing red
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  • Sep 23, 2018
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  • Sep 23, 2018
Unexpected peaks: widening participation in Scotland
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  • Sep 23, 2018
Why we should select students by lottery
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  • Sep 23, 2018
Mis-sold, expensive and overhyped: why our universities are a con
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  • Sep 20, 2018
Grammar schools are 'state-sponsored segregation' that stifle chances for poorer children, Lib Dems say
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  • Sep 15, 2018
Grammar schools are 'state sponsored segregation', Lib Dem conference told
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  • Sep 15, 2018
Hot off the press: the IOE debates series for 2018/19
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  • Sep 13, 2018
Parental choice ‘discriminates against poor’
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  • Sep 13, 2018
Five ways to boost social mobility through skills
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£18m ‘future talent fund’ cancelled less than a year after it was announced
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New social mobility commissioners due next month
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Leadership Through Sport & Business are delighted to partner with us!
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  • Sep 6, 2018
Universities and integration – an opportunity
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Fair Education Alliance: Progress to education equality 'slow and patchy'
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  • Sep 5, 2018
Training the leaders of tomorrow: Developing partnerships between colleges and financial services
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  • Sep 4, 2018
Hinds - ‘Evidence shows grammars boost social mobility’
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  • Aug 31, 2018
New £1.6million investment in projects in North Yorkshire
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  • Aug 28, 2018
New £1.6million investment in projects in North Yorkshire
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  • Aug 28, 2018
Collab Group and Leadership Through Sport & Business announce education partnership
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Melissa Benn: The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools
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  • Aug 24, 2018
Funded two-year-old places starting to close the gap, but higher take-up key
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  • Aug 23, 2018
The destinations of disabled graduates
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  • Aug 19, 2018
Cambridge University plans free degrees for poorest students
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  • Aug 19, 2018
Heads slam May over North-South uni admissions divide
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  • Aug 16, 2018
Importance of uni for pupils at a six-year low
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  • Aug 16, 2018
The last straw? Heads are fuming over pay deal
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  • Aug 15, 2018
The problem of predicting A levels
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  • Aug 15, 2018
Government accused of 'total failure' to widen elite university access
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  • Aug 15, 2018
Partnerships prove how social mobility initiatives are good for businesses
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  • Aug 9, 2018
Russell Group complains they are 'forced to compete'  for 'small pool' for bright, disadvantaged students
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  • Aug 9, 2018
'Why won't Hinds give colleges more credit?'
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  • Aug 8, 2018
Action, not words, will show how serious the government is to tackling the early years gap | Luciana Berger & Lucy Powell
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  • Aug 7, 2018
Universities chief calls for ministers to bring back maintenance grants amid diversity criticism
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  • Aug 6, 2018
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  • Aug 6, 2018
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  • Aug 6, 2018
Schools must help us close gap, says St Andrews head Sally Mapstone
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  • Aug 4, 2018
Multimillion investment in early years education and boost social mobility
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  • Aug 1, 2018
'Want social mobility? Then educate parents'
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  • Aug 1, 2018
Multimillion investment in early years education and boost social mobility
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  • Aug 1, 2018
Education Secretary reveals disadvantaged pupils are a quarter less likely to be in a steady job aged 27
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  • Aug 1, 2018
Education Secretary sets vision for boosting social mobility
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  • Jul 31, 2018
Education secretary: elite universities must improve access
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  • Jul 31, 2018
Response to Damian Hind's speech on social mobility
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  • Jul 31, 2018
Disadvantaged students can have a competitive edge, says social mobility charity
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  • Jul 31, 2018
Education Secretary sets vision for boosting social mobility
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  • Jul 31, 2018
Government commits to halving the early years literacy gap
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  • Jul 31, 2018
Education Secretary savaged for rising inequality as new fund for literacy revealed
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  • Jul 31, 2018
Millions of kids have ‘not been taught how to talk before they start school’
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  • Jul 31, 2018
Rushed reforms harm our poorest pupils the most
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  • Jul 25, 2018
Thomas Docherty: it’s time to kill off the social mobility agenda
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Social mobility Vice Chancellors
  • Jul 24, 2018
1,000 pupils miss out on top grades
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  • Jul 19, 2018
Half of clever students from poor backgrounds fail to secure top GCSE grades, study says
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  • Jul 19, 2018
DfE received six applications for social mobility tsar job by original deadline
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  • Jul 17, 2018
Driving social mobility: a strategic business imperative, not a “nice to have”
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  • Jul 15, 2018
MPs slam Hinds' 'unwise' role in social mobility chief appointment
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  • Jul 13, 2018
‘No evidence’ grammar schools can promote social mobility, study suggests
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  • Jul 13, 2018
New Chair of the Social Mobility Commission confirmed
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  • Jul 13, 2018
Dame Martina named new chair of Social Mobility Commission amid controversy
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  • Jul 13, 2018
Dame Martina Milburn endorsed as Chair of Social Mobility Commission
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  • Jul 13, 2018
'No evidence' that grammar schools help disadvantaged
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  • Jul 13, 2018
Process for the appointment of the Chair of the Social Mobility Commission
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  • Jul 13, 2018
How to maintain progress on social mobility
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  • Jul 12, 2018
Government’s preferred candidate for Social Mobility Commission questioned
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  • Jul 12, 2018
Britain must stop pressuring young people to go university to get an Oxford degree, expert warns
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  • Jul 12, 2018
Britain doesn't need to be nation of Oxbridge graduates, says social mobility expert who thinks too many teens are being forced to get a degree
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  • Jul 12, 2018
England does not need a nation of  Oxford degrees, Government's chosen social mobility chief warns
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  • Jul 11, 2018
‘Preferred’ Social Mobility Commission chair wants ‘complete overhaul’ of FE
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  • Jul 11, 2018
Fifth of big recruiters screen university names from applications
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Russell Group Recruitment Social mobility
  • Jul 11, 2018
'Double our money', says new social mobility chief
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  • Jul 11, 2018
The key to social mobility lies in language
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Social mobility Language Vocabulary Education Select Committee
  • Jul 11, 2018
Damian Hinds asked me to apply, says new social mobility tsar
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  • Jul 11, 2018
9:30 am: Government’s preferred candidate for Social Mobility Commission questioned
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Education Committee Social mobility Social Mobility Commission Prince's Trust Dame Martina Milburn
  • Jul 11, 2018
Is it ever worth working for 'exposure'?
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  • Jul 10, 2018
Angela Rayner: Austerity has eroded every defence against poverty for children
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  • Jul 6, 2018
Tackling the geographical disparities in higher education
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  • Jul 5, 2018
North-south divide in schools is real – and it’s more complex than you think
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  • Jul 5, 2018
Keeping it local: why widening participation is a community issue
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  • Jul 2, 2018
Just like '66
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  • Jul 1, 2018
Multi-million pound fund to support disadvantaged children in the early years
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Hinds: 'I trust grammars on poorer pupils'
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Public Accounts Committee report finds the HE market is not working in the interests of students or taxpayers
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Manifesto idea #35: Helen Smith
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Schools with 20 per cent or more pupils from poor backgrounds see lower attainment for all children
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The working class: Poverty, education and alternative voices by Ian Gilbert
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Kirsty Williams sets five new tests at Wales’s first social mobility summit
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Robert Halfon MP comments on Government Response to report
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Grammar schools have 'no benefit to young people', fresh study finds
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More than 60% of students offered places at Oxford are from state schools for the first time in the university’s history
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'£50m for grammars just panders to middle classes'
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Beckett scheme wins social mobility award
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‘Choice’ is code for inequality – and it has polluted our education system | Frances Ryan
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'Opportunity areas' are hampered by lack of time, claims ex-schools minister
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Osborne to urge ministers to bridge the North-South gap in school standards
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Early years social mobility peer review programme
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Council efforts to boost young children's literacy to be peer reviewed
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Judge schools on former pupils' performance at age 25, says Sir David Carter
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Cut youth services and violent crime will rise – is that really so hard to see? | Polly Toynbee
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Scotland: University diversity drive ‘failing poorest’
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Grammar schools don’t add any value. So let’s ditch them | Ryan Shorthouse
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Greening warns social mobility is 'far more complex' than grammar schools
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Grammar school students’ success ‘down to privilege,’ new reports finds
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Call to close grammar schools because 'they don't do better'
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Grammar schools should be ‘phased out’ as they damage social mobility, says study
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Study 'explodes myth' that poor families have lower ambitions for their children
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Research: Grammar schools do not do better and should be scrapped
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Children in north 'being left behind', children's commissioner warns
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Northern children ‘being left behind’ – Children’s Commissioner
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Children's commissioner's North report calls for greater early intervention
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Children in northern England being hit by 'double whammy' of poverty and failing schools, warns report
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Children's commissioner: Northern pupils face double whammy of 'poor' schools and deprivation
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Call for more powers for commission that warned teacher quality is harming social mobility
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Education committee wants reform of social mobility commission
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England's top school
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BBC sets itself target to boost literacy skills of a million under-fives
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Poor pupils in Scotland half as likely to attend university compared with wealthier peers
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Poorer students three times more likely to live at home while at university, study says
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Setting pupils 'incompatible with social justice'
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Ucas blames Northern schools for lack of ‘aspiration and attainment’
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Manchester schools tsar condemns Education Endowment Foundation as 'dangerous'
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Disadvantaged children need a break – not a system stacked against them | Frances Ryan
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Helping gifted children is all very well – but what about the rest? | Dawn Foster
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David Laws: It’s not too late to rescue tuition policy but cutting fees is not the answer
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Plans to slash tuition fees met with backlash from senior Tories
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Theresa May is warned her revamp for tuition fees doesn’t add up
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Former education secretary Justine Greening warns cheaper degree plans could stifle social mobility
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PRIME 2018: Building diversity in law
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We cannot let London outstrip other regions on social mobility | Iain Martin
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Cash cuts undermining 30-hours childcare policy
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BBC series tracks lives of six underprivileged and gifted 13-year-olds
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HESA widening participation 16/17 – visualised
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  • Feb 2, 2018
Number of state pupils attending university rises only marginally, figures show
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  • Feb 1, 2018
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‘Unfair’ internships: new research
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  • Jan 30, 2018
Unpaid internships in fashion or media now cost graduates more than £6k
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Rising living costs for unpaid interns shutting out less-advantaged youngsters
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Unpaid internships in London now cost more than £1,000 a month
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Social mobility top priority at Damian Hinds' DfE
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‘I found it a privilege’ – Greening gives first interview since reshuffle
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Poor pupils in the North are a grade behind
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  • Jan 28, 2018
Top universities accused of BTec snobbery
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Opportunity areas: S31 grant determination and letters
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  • Jan 26, 2018
AELP responds to 26.5% drop in apprenticeship starts
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  • Jan 25, 2018
How can policy ensure education equity? A speech by Nick Gibb
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  • Jan 25, 2018
Record number of poor students enter top universities, figures show
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  • Jan 25, 2018
Homeless children on the increase in Scotland, new figures show
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  • Jan 24, 2018
Nick Gibb: How can policy ensure education equity?
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  • Jan 23, 2018
Education is not enough to improve social mobility, former commissioners warn
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Schools seek to broaden pupils’ horizons and life chances
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  • Jan 22, 2018
Children's centres undermined by ministers, says charity
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Social mobility and opportunity areas
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  • Jan 19, 2018
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Former Commissioners questioned on Social Mobility Commission
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Encouraging care leavers into higher education
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Letter from Robert Halfon to Justine Greening in response and querying the future of the Social Justice Commission
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  • Jan 19, 2018
23rd January: Education Committee will question Alan Milburn over his decision to resign as Chair of the Social Mobility Commission
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Education committee to quiz former social mobility commissioners
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Damian Hinds announces education drive for disadvantaged areas
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Letter to Robert Halfon from Justine Greening re recruitment of new chair of the Social Mobility Commission
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Second wave of ‘opportunity area’ plans published: What do schools need to know?
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Drive to raise education standards in areas most in need
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  • Jan 19, 2018
£45m to be given to academy chains to help underperformance in disadvantaged areas
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Flagship social mobility programme risked 'overloading' schools, DfE official reveals
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  • Jan 18, 2018
Anne Milton: speech at Sixth Form Colleges Association conference
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  • Jan 17, 2018
Is social mobility really about school cash?
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  • Jan 17, 2018
The social divide hasn’t gone away
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  • Jan 16, 2018
Responsibility within leadership
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  • Jan 15, 2018
Lower the bar to raise expectations in Scotland
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  • Jan 14, 2018
More grammar schools and lower tuition fees are not the answer
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  • Jan 13, 2018
Damian Hinds: The new sheriff in town
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  • Jan 12, 2018
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Impact of apprenticeship reforms on social mobility shared with Damian Hinds
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Not only do our most deprived pupils have an opportunity deficit, they have a deficit of beauty in their lives
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Now Teach will target government's social mobility 'cold spots'
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Corbyn ally Angela Rayner admits poor white boys have suffered from Labour’s obsession with women and minorities
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White working class boys 'at bottom of heap' because of focus on minorities and women
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White working-class boys should be more aspirational, says Labour minister
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Tatler publishes state schools guide for 'people like us'
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Barnardo’s left stranded by non-levy tender
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  • Dec 20, 2017
May defends social mobility plan following criticism from former aide
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Professor aims to break link between disadvantage and low attainment for Manchester's pupils
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  • Dec 15, 2017
In search of a university system that best serves society | Letters
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Girls should be taught to ask for a pay rise, says school chain boss
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Early years settings to receive £50m to improve social mobility
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  • Dec 14, 2017
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Greening: £23m fund for bright pupils who ‘could do with extra help’
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Greening unveils four 'ambitions' to help improve social mobility
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Differential fees would undermine social mobility, argues MillionPlus
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Let’s end inequality once and for all, says NAHT
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Scots universities told to drop entry grades for poor students
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Closing GCSE gap could mean £110k boost for disadvantaged pupils
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Accounting firms urged to improve social mobility in the industry
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The poorest in society experience school as it it were educational apartheid
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“Singin’ in the Rain? – if leaders were assigned a type of clothing…”
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Unemployed parents deserve free childcare more than working families, education select committee chair says
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Government can 'walk and chew gum at the same time', education minister says
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Fresh Cabinet split over Theresa May’s decision to oust social mobility chief and former Labour minister Alan Milburn
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Social mobility tsar Alan Milburn goes with a bang before dismissal by No 10
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Social mobility tsar Alan Milburn quits with furious attack on Theresa May
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Social Mobility Commission Board quits 'due to little hope of fairer Britain'
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Levy on independent schools 'should be set up to bring in more disadvantaged pupils'
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Children as young as three grouped by ‘ability’ for high-stakes tests
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  • Dec 1, 2017
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Children as young as three are grouped by ‘ability’ to prepare for Phonics Screening Check and Key stage 1 SATs
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Disadvantaged youngsters ‘less likely to start the best apprenticeships’
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Social mobility in Great Britain: Fifth state of the nation report
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Reception - a missed opportunity for too many children
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Government gets it right on work experience element of T levels but it must recognise level 2 attainment
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Research finds earnings gaps between genders, shortages in apprenticeship quality
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The launch of the T level consultation
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Grammar schools to make 'formal' commitment to admitting poorer pupils
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Many apprentices 'treading water', warns Sutton Trust
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Major report says areas provide young people with thriving education institutions and good jobs
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  • Nov 29, 2017
Social mobility in Great Britain: fifth state of the nation report
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  • Nov 28, 2017
State of the nation 2017
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'It feels a little forgotten': West Somerset bears brunt of social mobility challenge
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Revealed: The best and worst parts of England for disadvantaged pupils
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Social Mobility Commission response
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Study reveals gulf in social mobility between councils
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Councils 'should produce local strategies' to boost life chances
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SMC 'state of the nation' report
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State of the nation - sector response
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Children's early years experiences vary widely across the country
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Disadvantaged pupils outside of London 'have odds stacked against them'
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  • Nov 28, 2017
Children from UK’s most disadvantaged areas ‘being left behind economically and socially’
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  • Nov 28, 2017
Give RSCs responsibility for teacher supply, says Social Mobility Commission
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  • Nov 28, 2017
Social Mobility Commission report: The findings and recommendations for schools
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  • Nov 28, 2017
The worst places in Wales to grow up poor (and the best)
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Social mobility: The worst places to grow up poor
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Social Mobility Commission warns UK is in a 'spiral of division'
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  • Nov 28, 2017
MillionPlus comment on the UCAS End of Cycle Report 2017
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  • Nov 27, 2017
AoC responds to Industrial Strategy announcement
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MillionPlus comment on the UCAS End of Cycle Report 2017
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How do students decide what and where to study?
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  • Nov 24, 2017
Management apprenticeships debate rages
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  • Nov 24, 2017
Sense of place
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Autumn Budget 2017: ‘Don’t dilute apprenticeship levy spend’
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What will the 2017 autumn budget have in store for schools?
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  • Nov 21, 2017
'We don't know how many pupils are in alternative provision,' researchers tell MPs
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  • Nov 21, 2017
‘Working-class children get less of everything in education - including respect’
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  • Nov 21, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 17 November 2017
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  • Nov 17, 2017
Is there evidence for bias in admissions?
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UVAC degree apprenticeship myth busting at the Skills Show
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Free schools ‘failing to help enough poor white pupils’
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  • Nov 16, 2017
Scotland: Employers must do more to reach the young most in need
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  • Nov 16, 2017
How apprenticeships can help productivity and social mobility
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  • Nov 15, 2017
University-school partnerships driving social mobility
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  • Nov 14, 2017
Social media, mental health and 5 other issues which need action, according to the children's commissioner
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  • Nov 14, 2017
Of Magic Bullets and Black Boxes – the role of evaluation in WP outreach
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  • Nov 14, 2017
Education and social mobility – the missing link, or red herring?
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  • Nov 3, 2017
We’re in a turbulent exam system – and the real storms are yet to hit
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  • Nov 3, 2017
As difficult as it is, it's important we discuss the part played by genes in cognitive ability
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  • Nov 2, 2017
I’m a Cambridge student and University Challenge contestant – but I almost didn’t get here
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  • Oct 28, 2017
Report: university admissions in context
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  • Oct 27, 2017
Poor student admissions to top universities could rise by half if they entry requirements were lowered
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Give poor pupils a two grade break
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  • Oct 26, 2017
‘Top universities should make lower offers to worse-off students’
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Hundreds more poor students could attend 'top' universities if entry requirements were dropped by two A-level grades
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Call for lower grades to help poorer students
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  • Oct 26, 2017
Parlimentary Newsletter 23
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Analysis: Why aren't there any Opportunity Areas in the North East?
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  • Oct 25, 2017
DfE must make 'smarter decisions' about struggling academies, says Greening
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Education Secretary puts teachers at the heart of social mobility
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  • Oct 24, 2017
Justine Greening: We can challenge the impossible
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  • Oct 24, 2017
Dear Ms Greening, why won’t your boss give up on new grammar schools?| Michael Rosen
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  • Oct 24, 2017
Our task is to get parents to care about the education of other people’s kids
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  • Oct 24, 2017
Teach First: 'Schools must do more to boost poorer pupils' life chances'
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  • Oct 23, 2017
Unpaid internships are damaging to social mobility
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  • Oct 23, 2017
Challenges for the next generation
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  • Oct 23, 2017
Challenges for the next generation
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  • Oct 23, 2017
Sutton Trust welcomes higher education consultation
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  • Oct 19, 2017
Varaidzo Kativhu: ‘I just assumed Oxford university would be for the posh’
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  • Oct 19, 2017
New 'careers leaders' role urged to help narrow the gaps
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  • Oct 18, 2017
We've given up on grammars, says May: PM backs expansion of selective schools for first time since election
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  • Oct 18, 2017
Calls to end ‘discrimination’ against citizenship teachers
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  • Oct 17, 2017
Helping the Education Secretary reach her full potential
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  • Oct 16, 2017
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  • Oct 14, 2017
In the news: 13 October
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  • Oct 13, 2017
Apprenticeship starts drop by 61% after levy introduced
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  • Oct 12, 2017
Daily roundup 12 October: Disadvantaged children, T-Levels, and child abuse trial
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  • Oct 12, 2017
Institute of Education, in partnership with Tes, to host a new series of live education debates
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  • Oct 11, 2017
Disadvantaged pupils learning watered-down curriculum, says Ofsted
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  • Oct 11, 2017
Grammar heads say poor pupils are losing out as DfE delays transport pledge
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  • Oct 10, 2017
Making the difference: Breaking the link between school exclusion and social exclusion
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  • Oct 10, 2017
Plans launched to drive social mobility in Opportunity Areas
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  • Oct 9, 2017
Plans launched to drive social mobility in Opportunity Areas
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  • Oct 9, 2017
DfE unveils 'opportunity area' plans
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  • Oct 9, 2017
Is pushing the cadets really in pupils’ best interests?
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  • Oct 9, 2017
Opportunity area plans – what do schools need to know?
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  • Oct 9, 2017
Education Secretary launches plans to raise education standards
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  • Oct 9, 2017
Exclusions, early years, skills: Opportunity areas reveal their priorities
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  • Oct 9, 2017
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  • Oct 9, 2017
Social mobility isn’t about behaving like the middle class
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  • Oct 2, 2017
Social capital: the new frontier in widening participation at universities
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  • Oct 2, 2017
Apprenticeships are key to social mobility and business growth
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  • Sep 29, 2017
Early years changes 'risk leaving poorest children further behind'
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  • Sep 28, 2017
Value for students and society
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  • Sep 21, 2017
Submission: #42 Apprenticeships as driver of social mobility
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  • Sep 21, 2017
Threat to social mobility posed by government’s own apprenticeship reforms
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  • Sep 21, 2017
‘Out of sight, out of mind’ or ‘ignorance’ – why doesn’t society care anymore?
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  • Sep 21, 2017
Apprenticeships as driver of social mobility
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  • Sep 21, 2017
Threat to social mobility posed by government’s own apprenticeship reforms
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  • Sep 21, 2017
AELP urges government to ensure apprenticeship reforms don't hit social mobility
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  • Sep 21, 2017
Could we get the best teachers into the most deprived schools?
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  • Sep 19, 2017
Policy Eye - highlights of week ending Friday 15 September 2017
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  • Sep 15, 2017
Daily roundup 15 September: Aspiration, knife crime, and 'mosquitos'
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  • Sep 15, 2017
Nick Clegg: No room for complacency in battle against ‘pernicious’ social immobility
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Will Government change its ‘one size fits all’ funding structures as they force students out of the system?
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Rising tuition fees could price out college students, report warns
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Britain’s youth say they face barriers to success, prosperity and engagement
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  • Sep 13, 2017
DfE to monitor partnerships between state schools and independents
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  • Sep 13, 2017
Social mobility: breaking down the barriers
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  • Sep 13, 2017
Impact of degree apprenticeships – invitation to respond
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  • Sep 11, 2017
Closing the gap: we need the best teachers in the most deprived schools
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  • Sep 8, 2017
Young Muslims in the UK face enormous social mobility barriers
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  • Sep 7, 2017
Social mobility challenges faced by young Muslims
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  • Sep 7, 2017
New Russell Group chair celebrates UK higher education system
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  • Sep 7, 2017
Daily roundup 7 September: Brexit impact, young Muslims, and school uniform
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  • Sep 7, 2017
Extra Time: New Sutton Trust Report on private tuition and out-of-school study
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  • Sep 7, 2017
Poor pupils get less tutoring and homework help - study
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  • Sep 7, 2017
Private tuition 'is the hidden secret of Britain's educational arms race'
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  • Sep 7, 2017
Teacher vacancy rate double in poor areas
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Poorest pupils lag more than a year behind richer peers
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Programme for government: Education remains number one priority
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  • Sep 5, 2017
Free schools meals measure masks north south divide in pupil poverty
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  • Sep 5, 2017
LSE tops social mobility report
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  • Sep 5, 2017
Closing the gap: we need the best teachers in the most deprived schools
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  • Sep 4, 2017
Failure to invest in early years provision risks creating “lost generation” and hitting social mobility, warns senior Labour MP
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  • Aug 31, 2017
Three-quarters of extra childcare funding to benefit richest 50% - thinktank
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  • Aug 31, 2017
New Insights on WP: The Welsh tradition and contemporary challenge
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  • Aug 31, 2017
Overall NEET rates continue to fall but should we be concerned about the rise in 16 to 18 year olds who are NET as well as NEET?
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  • Aug 25, 2017
Diversity troubles – comprehensive solutions to HE’s racial segregation
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  • Aug 24, 2017
Sir Peter Lampl comments on the latest OFFA access agreements
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  • Aug 23, 2017
Villiers Park Educational Trust comment on OFFA’s Access Agreements
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  • Aug 23, 2017
Social mobility and improving access to Britain’s universities | Letters
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  • Aug 21, 2017
Social mobility is vital to our prosperity, but we leave it too late by waiting until university to act
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  • Aug 18, 2017
Julia Shervington: social mobility is vital to our prosperity
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  • Aug 18, 2017
New Insights on WP: A more radical approach to contextualised admissions
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  • Aug 17, 2017
A level decline in creative subjects and languages makes mockery of government social mobility claims
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  • Aug 17, 2017
New insights on WP: The importance of social capital
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  • Aug 16, 2017
Opportunity areas could face 'unrealistic expectations', warns DfE research
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  • Aug 16, 2017
We won’t know if opportunity areas have worked until at least 2021
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  • Aug 16, 2017
New insights on widening participation: foreword by Les Ebdon
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  • Aug 15, 2017
Just one in five students in the country’s poorest communities will make it to university
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  • Aug 15, 2017
Widening access to higher education and part-time learning go hand-in-hand
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  • Aug 14, 2017
One in 20 go to university in the poorest areas
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  • Aug 14, 2017
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  • Aug 11, 2017
Growing fee fears among young people
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  • Aug 10, 2017
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  • Aug 10, 2017
Number of young people planning to go to university falls to lowest level in eight years
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  • Aug 10, 2017
Secondary pupils losing interest in the idea of university
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  • Aug 10, 2017
Number of pupils planning to go to university 'at lowest level in 8 years'
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  • Aug 10, 2017
Some university leaders will only pay 'lip service' to improving social mobility unless forced to change, head of regulator claims
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  • Aug 10, 2017
50 years before we have an equitable school system
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  • Aug 8, 2017
The opportunity of apprenticeships must be open to all
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  • Aug 7, 2017
Disadvantaged pupils 'falling further behind', study finds
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  • Aug 3, 2017
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  • Aug 3, 2017
Think tank argues it is taking 'too long' to close attainment gap
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Poorest pupils 'two years behind when they sit GCSEs'
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  • Aug 3, 2017
University access gap between poor pupils and their peers widens
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  • Aug 3, 2017
Opportunity areas exclude regions where attainment gap grows fastest, EPI finds
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  • Aug 3, 2017
We need to tackle recruitment and invest in schools to help tackle disadvantage, says NAHT
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  • Aug 2, 2017
Apprenticeship reforms and social mobility under the spotlight in new inquiry
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  • Aug 2, 2017
Social mobility is in your genes, finds new study
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  • Aug 1, 2017
Labour is right not to make social mobility an educational goal | Selina Todd
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  • Aug 1, 2017
John Prescott: Class ceiling should be on a-gender too
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  • Jul 30, 2017
The promise of summer schools
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  • Jul 27, 2017
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  • Jul 26, 2017
The case for intersectionality in TEF
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  • Jul 25, 2017
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  • Jul 21, 2017
Robert Halfon: 'I want the whole of the committee’s work – everything – to link back to social justice'
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  • Jul 21, 2017
The comprehensive university: an alternative to social stratification by academic selection
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  • Jul 20, 2017
MillionPlus welcomes HEPI’s The Comprehensive University paper
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  • Jul 20, 2017
Why all universities should not be ‘comprehensives’
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  • Jul 20, 2017
New report calls for comprehensive universities to improve social mobility
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  • Jul 20, 2017
Comprehensive change?
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  • Jul 20, 2017
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  • Jul 20, 2017
How World Youth Skills Day can help with social mobility
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  • Jul 19, 2017
Homework should count in 20% off-the-job training rule
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  • Jul 17, 2017
The Guardian view on the 1%: all gain, no pain | Editorial
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  • Jul 16, 2017
We need a new approach to social mobility
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  • Jul 16, 2017
Education has ‘done nothing’ to improve social mobility
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  • Jul 16, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 14 July 2017
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  • Jul 14, 2017
Villiers Park Educational Trust’s social mobility programme celebrates scholars’ success
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  • Jul 14, 2017
In the news: 14 July 2017
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  • Jul 14, 2017
University tuition fees haven't failed – but they need a second look
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  • Jul 14, 2017
More equal than the others – that’s how the middle class stays ahead | Gaby Hinsliff
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  • Jul 14, 2017
Reaction to the Commission on Inequality in Education's final report
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  • Jul 13, 2017
Education Secretary unveils schemes to tackle social mobility
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Justine Greening: we should not accept Britain as it has been
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  • Jul 12, 2017
ATL comment on Sutton Trust report on social mobility
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Sutton Trust - social mobility
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Social mobility can be much more than just widening HE access
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Social mobility summit blog
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  • Jul 12, 2017
20 years of social mobility research – Sutton Trust summit
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Daily roundup 12 July: Social mobility, harmful sexual behaviour, and bullying
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Greening announces 'evidence champion' for schools
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Greening wants departure from ‘punitive intervention’ in struggling schools
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Greening becomes third government minister to launch ‘careers strategy’
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Greening signals less 'punitive' approach towards struggling schools
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Sir Kevan Collins appointed ‘evidence champion’ for social mobility 'cold spots'
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  • Jul 12, 2017
£2.2m for 11 new research schools takes total to 22
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  • Jul 12, 2017
£590 per head social mobility GDP boost
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  • Jul 12, 2017
'Growing uncertainty' over prospects for young people
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Public ranks comprehensive schools as best for social mobility
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Public overwhelmingly backs comprehensives over grammar schools to improve social mobility
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  • Jul 12, 2017
Villiers Park Educational Trust shortlisted for two social mobility awards
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  • Jul 11, 2017
Pull funding from grammar schools which do not boost social mobility - Labour MP Lucy Powell
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  • Jul 11, 2017
Lucy Powell MP: Putting social mobility at the heart of government policy means grammar schools need to change
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  • Jul 11, 2017
Parents of pupils on free school meals 'get less information from schools'
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  • Jul 11, 2017
Steve Williams: Poverty can lead to poor job prospects
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  • Jul 11, 2017
FSM pupils in grammar schools up by just 0.1% despite years of pressure from ministers
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  • Jul 11, 2017
It’s time for the devolved authorities to lead on skills
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  • Jul 10, 2017
Student loans not as bad as Wonga, insist ministers
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  • Jul 10, 2017
Programme involving Teach First and two other government backed teacher training schemes has 'no impact' on attainment
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  • Jul 7, 2017
Justine Greening: Speech at the Business and Education Summit
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  • Jul 6, 2017
The facts are clear – Conservative university policy has failed
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  • Jul 6, 2017
Education Secretary addresses business and education leaders and calls for a skills revolution
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  • Jul 6, 2017
Debt levels for poorest students is hugely worrying
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MillionPlus comment on the HEPI/Unite Students Reality Check report
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  • Jul 4, 2017
Maybe scrapping tuition fees would be regressive. Perhaps we should do it anyway
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  • Jul 4, 2017
Daily roundup 4 July: Solitary confinement, social mobility, and cadet abuse
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  • Jul 4, 2017
US success for 62 pupils
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  • Jul 4, 2017
Eisenstadt report: Middle class told to be proud if children get an apprenticeship
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NASUWT comments on the creation of the Poverty and Inequality Commission
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Let's use the Tef to bring lofty universities back down to earth
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Schools must plan curriculum and be able to show inspectors, says Harford
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Sutton Trust report shows no single school structure is perfect, says NAHT
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  • Jun 30, 2017
In the news: 30 June 2017
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Salary vs. satisfaction: What constitutes good work for graduates?
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Academy schools benefit ‘low-achieving poor pupils’ most
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  • Jun 30, 2017
Multi-academy trusts not doing enough for high attaining poor pupils, says charity
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Daily roundup 29 June: Fire safety, children's services review, and social mobility
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OFFA access reports
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Teachers' 'exceptional work' praised at Pupil Premium Awards
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Rise in poorer students dropping out of university
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'Double early years pupil premium' to close poverty gap
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More needs to be done to improve social mobility, says ATL
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  • Jun 28, 2017
Social Mobility Commission - "Time for Change" report
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  • Jun 23, 2017
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Response to decision to hold a general election on 8 June 2017
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Schools already select by wealth with poor children twice as likely to attend substandard schools, study finds
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'One rule for them' Labour MP squirms over top schools chosen by party's senior figures
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Justine Greening: Grammar schools must do more to take pupils from 'ordinary working families'
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Flagship apprenticeships policies will not fill growing skills gap, MPs warn
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Applied General qualifications to remain
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North-South divide will be widened by new £2bn-a-year apprenticeship scheme, finds think tank
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Looking fair and wide on university access
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Widening access now has a business and social imperative
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Apprenticeship levy will deepen north-south divide, IPPR says
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May’s adviser leading ministers ‘by the nose’ over grammars, former deputy PM claims
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Nicky Morgan, Nick Clegg and Lucy Powell to lead grammar schools debate
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NAHT responds to the DfE’s second stage consultation on the national funding formula and the high needs funding formula
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  • Mar 23, 2017
Faith schools and grammars the most ethnically and socially segregated in UK, warns charity report
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  • Mar 22, 2017
Theresa May attacks Labour frontbenchers for sending their kids to private school
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  • Mar 22, 2017
Government is right that a new funding formula for schools is needed, say education unions
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  • Mar 22, 2017
Government’s muddled thinking on social mobility encouraging more challenge to their plans, says NAHT
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UK's most deprived state schools could face further cuts thanks to new government funding formula
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Grammar schools debate: four key questions answered
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Children in poor areas don't get the work experience they need, study finds
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We need to change the debate about social mobility says Prof Tim Blackman
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Government is right that a new funding formula for schools is needed, say education unions
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  • Mar 21, 2017
Future schools: core subjects only, parents pay for the rest | Laura McInerney
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Schools funding formula change risks children’s futures
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Scrap new wave of grammar schools, ministers urged
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Former Eton head says academic selection is 'old hat' and 'doesn't work'
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Tory, Labour and Lib Dem MPs unite against grammar schools
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Crossparty group of MPs unites to oppose May's grammar school plans
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EPI report shows government underfunding is key problem
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Education secretary promises action on recruitment and retention
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Academic freedom is holding back fair access to the professions
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Employers should join universities in reaching out to disadvantaged communities
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Tory revolt forces rethink of education funding plans
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Research round-up 13 March 2017
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Tories slash education spending while giving corporates and millionaires £70bn tax breaks
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  • Mar 12, 2017
New 'social mobility conditions' could apply to existing grammars
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Our education system is failing. It’s time to give grammar schools a go | Letters
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Ofsted chief warns ministers' plans for more selection send a 'difficult message' on social mobility
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ASCL 2017: Justine Greening heckled by heads over grammar plans
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Greening jeered over grammar school plans (video)
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UK children from jobless households more likely to experience poverty and be out of work as adults
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Ofsted chief cool on grammars as Justine Greening heckled by headteachers
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Justine Greening: teacher development key to school improvement
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Poorer pupils less likely to get into grammars than richer classmates
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AELP statement on the Chancellor’s Budget
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International Women’s Day: we cannot take progress for granted
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Budget fails to address education funding crisis
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Helena Kennedy: ‘We’re making a society that’s hard, where only money matters’
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Now parents can drive grammars revolution
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Set up your own grammar school: £500million plan for 100 free schools will hand new powers to parents
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  • Mar 7, 2017
To increase social mobility, invest in adult education
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Higher education - the key to greater freedom
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Oxford University can't save deprived white kids – the problems begin much earlier
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Academy chains planning 'pupil premium grammar schools'
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Minorities are missing out on apprenticeships, research shows
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Oxford University launches summer school aimed at white working class boys
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Oxford University to launch summer school aimed at white working class boys
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All families should have access to early years education, say NAHT
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Oxford University launches summer school aimed at white working-class British boys
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Comps aren’t helping social mobility. So why not bring back selection? | Mary Dejevsky
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NAHT respond to Teach First report on social mobility
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Sutton Trust report on school admissions
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Top state schools 'dominated by richest families'
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Number of pupils failing to get first choice of school expected to rise
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Top state schools are 'preserve of the rich', social mobility charity warns
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Poorer areas half as likely to have an ‘outstanding’ secondary
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Four in five top-performing comprehensive schools are 'socially selective'
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National offer day: 90,000 children set to miss out on first choice school, experts say
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Children in UK's poorest areas 10 times more likely to go into care
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Poor pupils will be overtaken by wealthier, less talented peers during secondary school, watchdog warns
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Let’s fix the leaky pipeline linking girls to science jobs
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Funding needed to improve social mobility, says NAHT
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Social mobility: Poorer children 'making less progress'
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Streaming 'holds back pupils from poor homes'
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Widening academic gap 'damaging future' for a generation of poorer pupils
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Poor pupils falling behind at secondary school, study finds
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'Disadvantaged' A-level pupils offered free tuition to help get into university
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Jo Johnson: Higher Education and Research Bill
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New school funding formula could force grammar schools to ditch outreach work
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Apprentices from less deprived areas than other FE students, research finds
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Double standards, social mobility and the degree apprenticeships maze
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Teenagers up to four times less likely to apply to university depending on where they live
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High quality early years education vital to social mobility
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Justine Greening: teachers - the experts driving social mobility
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University applications 'depends heavily on where you live'
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UK's most disadvantaged teenagers four times less likely to apply for university than better off peers
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Greening promises QTS won’t be scrapped, and 7 key findings from her College of Teaching conference speech
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It’s simple: a huge injection of cash is needed before school funding can be fair
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Report on academic selection echoes concerns raised by the NASUWT
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Franklyn Addo: university is still a white middle-class affair – it’s not just Cambridge
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MPs: Government has not proved the case for new grammar schools
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Grammars 'unnecessary distraction', say MPs
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Case for opening new grammar schools is yet to be proved, MPs say
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Small village schools are at risk of closure because of unfunded costs
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New grammar schools an 'unnecessary distraction', MPs warn
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Education committee: Government ‘yet to prove case’ for new grammar schools
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Teach First to move 40% of trainees to social opportunity areas
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Comic strip presents
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Government appears to row back on grammar school plans
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Contextual information alone will not improve social mobility
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Education Secretary visits Derby on opportunity areas tour
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If we are serious about improving social mobility, universities must lend their expertise to secondary schools 
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It takes a lot more than blind CVs to combat bias and boost diversity | Poppy Noor
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Work visits result in fewer young 'Neets'
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Sir Peter Lampl comments on today’s HESA data
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The Apprenticeship Levy should help people from all walks of life
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Headteachers to be handed £120m to tackle attainment gap
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Nick Gibb insists school funding changes are all about 'fairness'
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  • Jan 31, 2017
We are failing poorer students – school careers advice must step up
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Leading academic calls for schools to be more flexible when setting pupils
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  • Jan 26, 2017
UK 'class pay gap' explained
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New research uncovers 'class pay gap' in Britain’s professions
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The Sutton Trust responds to the Social Mobility Commission’s research into the class pay gap
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School admissions inadequately policed, adjudicator warns
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The chances of disadvantaged pupils going to Oxbridge and four other key points from new uni admissions stats
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Opportunity areas – more details emerge
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Breaking the class ceiling
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Breaking the class ceiling
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Justine Greening: education at the core of social mobility
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Working class officers to be appointed at Manchester University to represent less well-off students
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  • Jan 18, 2017
Greening’s £3.5m research hub fund open to ‘opportunity area’ schools
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‘Research schools’ planned to boost social mobility
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'Research schools' for social mobility zones
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Government unveils six new 'opportunity areas' to target schools in 'social mobility cold spots'
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Student unions recruit 'working class officers' to bridge working and middle class divide on campus
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  • Jan 17, 2017
'Patchy' careers advice in state schools is damaging social mobility, MPs warn
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Daily roundup 17 January: Broadband, body anxiety, and professor of play
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Thousands of young people face a “lost opportunity” because they can’t access top jobs, unless firms take potential employees’ background into account
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  • Jan 17, 2017
Social mobility inquiry finds thousands of talented young people missing out on top jobs
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  • Jan 17, 2017
MPs call for unpaid internships ban
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  • Jan 17, 2017
Check job applicants’ school background, MPs tell employers
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Government examines reforms to school admissions system to improve social mobility
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Social mobility report advises against setting and tiering
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Social inequalities – the report card
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New Ofsted chief laments grammar schools ‘distraction’
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  • Jan 10, 2017
Research round-up 10 January 2017
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  • Jan 9, 2017
Grammar schools offer ‘pitifully few’ places to poorer children
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  • Jan 7, 2017
Early years should focus on needs of different ethnic groups to boost social mobility
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Universities ‘to level playing field’
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  • Jan 3, 2017
Setting can have "profound negative impact" on social mobility, government commission says
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Asian students lose out on top jobs despite doing better at school than their white peers
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Social mobility promise 'broken' for ethnic minority children
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British Asians 'struggle for top jobs despite better school results'
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Reflections of the year
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  • Dec 22, 2016
Lesley Riddoch: University quotas can’t fix economic inequality
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Royal Society research: grammar schools don't benefit poorer pupils
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Grammars 'will not boost poorest pupils' science grades'
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  • Dec 17, 2016
No 'entitlement' to university for middle class pupils with good grades warns fair access tsar
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  • Dec 17, 2016
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 16 December 2016
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Bristol University to lower entry grades for disadvantaged students
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University lowers entry grades for disadvantaged
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  • Dec 15, 2016
Reading gap between most and least advantaged five year olds biggest in the US, but UK still lags behind Canada and Australia
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  • Dec 15, 2016
MillionPlus comment on the UCAS End of Cycle Report 2016
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  • Dec 15, 2016
Multiple measures of inequality show there is work still to do in widening access
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Wonkhe HE Universities Access Social mobility UCAS Disadvantaged students
  • Dec 15, 2016
University to lower entry grades for poor
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BBC HE Universities Disadvantaged students Social mobility Access UCAS
  • Dec 15, 2016
Disadvantaged pupils already eight months behind when school starts
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TES Disadvantaged pupils Social mobility Sutton Trust International Global Attainment gap
  • Dec 15, 2016
Record gap between rich and poor students winning university places
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  • Dec 14, 2016
Big city schools hit in funding shake-up
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  • Dec 14, 2016
Record numbers of 18 year olds accepted to university this year, UCAS report shows
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  • Dec 14, 2016
Record numbers of 18-year-olds accepted to university in 2016
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  • Dec 14, 2016
Expanding selection 'a distraction' says NASUWT
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NASUWT Grammar schools Social mobility Social inequality Teacher supply School places Funding
  • Dec 13, 2016
Grammar school plans beneficial to just six areas in England, experts suggest
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  • Dec 12, 2016
New grammars would benefit just six areas in England – report
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PoliticsHome Grammar schools EPI Social mobility
  • Dec 12, 2016
Grammar schools and social mobility – further analysis of policy options
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  • Dec 12, 2016
Planned grammar school expansion could damage social mobility
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  • Dec 12, 2016
MillionPlus responds to the ‘Schools that work for everyone’ green paper
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How should universities work with schools? Green Paper response
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  • Dec 12, 2016
ATL comment on EPI report ‘Grammar schools and social mobility - Further analysis of the government's policy options'
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  • Dec 12, 2016
New grammar schools would benefit just six areas, says study
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  • Dec 12, 2016
Mind your grammars
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  • Dec 9, 2016
School leaders reject plans to extend selection in England
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  • Dec 9, 2016
Did Theresa May mislead parliament on grammars?
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  • Dec 9, 2016
Theresa May's 'just about managing families' 'significantly under-represented' in grammar schools
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  • Dec 9, 2016
DfE hires grammar school critic as head of strategy and social mobility
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  • Dec 8, 2016
Further evidence grammars do not improve social mobility, says NAHT
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  • Dec 8, 2016
MillionPlus welcomes the National Collaborative Outreach Programme
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  • Dec 8, 2016
AoC's David Hughes chats about improving youth social mobility
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  • Dec 7, 2016
Robert Halfon's apprenticeship legacy
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  • Dec 6, 2016
Applications for 2017 Social Mobility Foundation programmes now open
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NAHT Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils
  • Dec 6, 2016
Pisa: Ministers advised to cut back on academic selection
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  • Dec 6, 2016
Disadvantaged children less likely to go to university than richer peers with similar grades
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  • Dec 5, 2016
Parents in north of England should be more pushy, says children's tsar
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BBC Tiger parents Attainment Social mobility
  • Dec 5, 2016
Poor children held back despite getting same grades as peers - report
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PoliticsHome Disadvantaged pupils GCSEs Social mobility
  • Dec 5, 2016
Education Secretary visits Blackpool on opportunity areas tour
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DfE GOV.UK FE Colleges Funding Social mobility Mental health Careers guidance
  • Dec 5, 2016
Put first new grammars in poorest areas: Call to kick-start social mobility by improving chances of children from deprived backgrounds
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  • Dec 4, 2016
Government proposals are ‘a muddled non sequitur’
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ASCL EPI Faith schools Pupil performance Social mobility
  • Dec 2, 2016
Faith schools academically 'no better' than any others, major new report suggests
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  • Dec 2, 2016
Government proposals are ‘a muddled non sequitur’
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  • Dec 2, 2016
More faith schools ‘unlikely’ to boost social mobility
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  • Dec 2, 2016
Lifting the cap on faith selection not the answer to boosting social mobility, says NAHT
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  • Dec 1, 2016
ATL comment on EPI report ‘Faith Schools, pupil performance, and social selection’
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  • Dec 1, 2016
Research round-up 29 November 2016
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NAHT Social mobility NQTs Secondary Northern Powerhouse
  • Nov 29, 2016
Forget grammar schools: my plan for 100 'May Schools' will rescue smart children from disadvantaged backgrounds
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Telegraph Grammar Disadvantaged pupils Social mobility
  • Nov 28, 2016
Grammars: ‘We must concentrate on what happens in classrooms, not the label on the school gate’
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  • Nov 26, 2016
Explaining socio-economic inequalities in educational attainment
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  • Nov 25, 2016
Technical education is our best chance to achieve social mobility
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  • Nov 25, 2016
Collaboration between independent and state schools - it happens more often than you might think
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Montrose42 Patrick Watson Independent schools State schools Green paper Attainment Social mobility
  • Nov 24, 2016
Analysis lays bare challenges facing new Opportunity Areas
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  • Nov 23, 2016
Autumn Statement: the Chancellor must back education in poor areas - current funding isn't enough | Brett Wigdortz
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Telegraph Funding Disadvantaged pupils Social mobility DfE HE FE Universities Colleges Employability GCSEs Ambition School Leadership Free school meals NEETS
  • Nov 23, 2016
Grammar school expansion plan' baffling', says MP
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BBC Grammar Social mobility
  • Nov 22, 2016
I know all about Oxford’s class problem. It starts in schools | Alexandra Topping
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Guardian HE Universities State schools Disadvantaged pupils Social mobility
  • Nov 22, 2016
The case for social mobility league tables
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  • Nov 22, 2016
MPs debate Education and Social Mobility and NHS Funding
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  • Nov 22, 2016
Poorer pupils lag by almost two years
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BBC Disadvantaged pupils ASL Social mobility Free school meals Future Leaders Trust Teaching Leaders
  • Nov 22, 2016
Children from poorer areas 'make two years' less progress' at school
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Guardian Disadvantaged pupils Secondary Social mobility ASL NAHT
  • Nov 22, 2016
In conversation... Shirley Atkinson and Professor Clive Mulholland
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MillionPlus HE Universities Brexit EU Social mobility Funding
  • Nov 21, 2016
Teach First should shun London to boost social mobility
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  • Nov 20, 2016
A flawed formula for our deprived schools | Letters
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Guardian Funding Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils
  • Nov 18, 2016
It’s no surprise that white working-class boys do badly at school
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Guardian Gender inequality Disadvantaged pupils Social mobility Sutton Trust
  • Nov 18, 2016
‘EasyPeasy’ parenting app ‘significantly’ improves school readiness skills through games and tips
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  • Nov 18, 2016
EasyPeasy evaluation
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Sutton Trust Parental engagement DfE Social mobility Disadvantaged pupils
  • Nov 18, 2016
Further education bodies in united call for Autumn Statement investment
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  • Nov 18, 2016
Further education bodies in united call for autumn statement investment
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  • Nov 18, 2016
Unionlearn joins call for autumn statement investment in FE
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Unionlearn FE Colleges Social mobility Adult learners
  • Nov 18, 2016
Government pledges £300m for music and arts education
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TES Funding Music Primary Secondary Social mobility
  • Nov 18, 2016
Additional funding needed for FE, sector organisations urge in joint letter
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TES FE Colleges Vocational Adult learners Funding Social mobility
  • Nov 18, 2016
Call for EYPP to be doubled to improve social mobility
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Achievable ambitions?
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BBC Social mobility
  • Nov 16, 2016
UK's social mobility problem holding back Thatcher generation, says report
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Social mobility commission: Force schools in worst local authorities into improvement programmes
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Grammars will make social mobility problem 'worse', report says
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Universities and colleges “a key piece in the social mobility puzzle”
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Social Mobility Commission calls for school sixth form extension
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  • Nov 16, 2016
'Treadmill families' going nowhere, says social mobility report
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BBC Social mobility Social inequality Disadvantaged pupils GCSEs
  • Nov 16, 2016
ATL comment on The Social Mobility Commission’s State of the Nation Report 2016
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ATL Social mobility Destination data
  • Nov 16, 2016
Social Mobility Commission - State of the Nation 2016
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Independent schools and social mobility: no easy answers
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  • Nov 16, 2016
To boost exam grades, we need the right investment at the right time, says NAHT
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  • Nov 16, 2016
To boost exam grades, we need the right investment at the right time, says NAHT
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Independent schools and social mobility: no easy answers
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  • Nov 16, 2016
Nearly half of Britons 'see background as key to success'
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BBC Social mobility HE Universities Internships Disadvantaged students
  • Nov 16, 2016
Neglecting oracy skills ‘hampers job prospects and social mobility’
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SecEd Social mobility Employability Oracy
  • Nov 9, 2016
Justine Greening calls for education research to be targeted at schools in disadvantaged areas
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TES Social mobility Disadvantaged students EEF
  • Nov 8, 2016
Grammar schools 'would disrupt London's education system' says UCL expert
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Evening Standard Grammar London Challenge UCL Academic selection Social mobility
  • Nov 8, 2016
Nick Gibb responds to academic criticism of grammar schools: six things we learned today
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TES Grammar Social mobility
  • Nov 8, 2016
Back to school: unintended consequences and the government’s new education policy
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Wonkhe Social mobility Green paper Grammar HE Universities
  • Nov 8, 2016
A quarter of pupils 'write only for school'
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BBC Writing Curriculum Social mobility
  • Nov 3, 2016
NAHT supports call for increased funding for early years
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  • Oct 31, 2016
Preserving the Apprenticeship Legacy for Social Mobility
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  • Oct 17, 2016
Grammar schools do nothing for social mobility – here’s why
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Schools Grammar schools Social mobility The Conversation
  • Oct 12, 2016
Opportunity Areas target high employer engagement
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  • Oct 12, 2016
Universities urged to work harder to recruit disadvantaged students
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  • Oct 10, 2016
Social mobility package unveiled by Education Secretary
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DfE Social mobility
  • Oct 4, 2016