…apprenticeships is miniscule compared to undergraduate places – and far too few go to low-income young people. We need more high-level skills for the future economy, and massively investing apprenticeships…
Measuring Up: Identifying students for contextual admissions
…John Jerrim, highlights, in the absence of access to data on household income over time, proxies such as postcode markers are predominantly used to answer that question; to make the…
2020, Covid-19 and the prospects for social mobility
…on the impacts of the pandemic shed light on the immediate consequences of Covid, but in doing so also highlighted the long–standing inequalities in the early years and schools sectors…
The future of face-to-face outreach
…of university partners highlighted that none were confident that face-to-face outreach would return before the end of this calendar year. Looking ahead beyond that, there is a mixed view with…
Widening access to tutoring
…the inequalities that exist in our society, particularly those that affect the poorest families. Teachers, heads and parents have worked incredibly hard to compensate for the disruption to children’s schooling,…
Two-thirds of socially mobile people have stayed where they grew up
…paid at least the minimum wage. There needs to be a significant increase in the number of degree and higher-level apprenticeships available across the country, and a focus on ensuring…