…gaps to university. It means creating educational and economic opportunities in every community across the country. Despite being a core goal of multiple governments for decades, from the Conservative’s ‘Levelling…
Higher ambitions
…students, but also for boys and for those from different ethnic communities. Transparency is vital in identifying issues, though it needs to be followed by real action if the numbers…
Our biggest ever year of employer engagement for Pathways
…DRS EIP Eversheds Sutherland Forsters LLP Francis Taylor Building GJE Glennmont Partners Government Legal Department Grant Thornton Greenhill & Co Harbottle and Lewis Hogan Lovells Infrastructure Industry Foundation Irwin Mitchell…
Jenni Russell: Employer must look for grit as well as grades
Jenni Russell mentions the Sutton Trust’s programmes and Justine Greening’s speech at the Carnegie-Sutton Trust Summit in a comment piece in the Times. Greening is right to say that such…
November 2017 – Westminster Roundup
…Milburn, David Johnston, Paul Gregg and the Conservative peer Gillian Shephard have resigned from their posts at the Social Mobility Commission. The Government will be appointing a new chair in…
Breaking the Class Ceiling
…beginnings. And she was perhaps fortunate to face that particular mobility barrier as the guilty bank was Barings. As the first comprehensive educated Conservative education secretary, Justine Greening has shown…