Current Social-mobility News Results

So much for social mobility, Mr Clegg: Deputy PM left red-faced as Government cuts force his ... - Daily Mail
Nick Clegg has been branded 'craven and dishonest' after he launched a social mobility campaign at a centre for deprived children that is to shut because of funding cuts. The Deputy Prime Minister appeared to be ...

Social mobility: the playing field fallacy - Utv
Last year Alan Milburn prepared a report on Fair Access to the Professions. Over and over, the report used the empty, misleading rhetoric of a race in which "everyone" is "entitled" to have a "fair chance" of ...

Most Britons Endorse the Creation of Social Mobility Tsar Position - Angus Reid Consultants
But respondents are evenly split on Labour’s Alan Milburn taking the job. People in Britain are satisfied with the Coalition Government's decision to create a social mobility tsar position, but the politician who ...

Restrictions to Sure Start threaten social mobility - Children & Young People Now
Concern is mounting over plans to limit the reach of Sure Start children's centres, with key figures fearing the policy could have an adverse impact on social mobility. Sure Start centres will target poor families ...

Happy Labor Day to the Unemployed - Huffingtonpost.com
We all know the promise--America's promise of unlimited social mobility. Nothing is stopping you from scaling the ladder, so get climbing! The American Dream is within anyone's grasp! Yet in the last 30 years,

Alan Milburn, New Labour and the British coalition government - World Socialist Web Site
The announcement that Alan Milburn, a former member of Tony Blair's cabinet, will advise the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government as its “social mobility Tsar” provides an opportunity to review the role of ...

The True Costs Of The Iraq And Afghanistan Wars - Forbes
--Less social mobility. However, the old GI Bill operated in an era of mass mobilization that better embraced all social strata--rather than the current all-volunteer force. Given that those who serve are ...

College rankings: UF, Stetson first in Florida on Washington Monthly’s lists - Orlando Sentinel (blog)
producing cutting-edge scholarship”), service (“encouraging students to give back to their country”) and social mobility (“recruiting and graduating low-income students”). “Many colleges that fall in the ...

Penn State drops in 'public good' ranking - Digital Collegian
Public good" was measured in three categories: social mobility, research and service. Social mobility accounts for the percentage of students receiving Pell Grants -- 13 percent at Penn State -- and predicted versus ...

Travels on Turkey’s democratization highway - Today's Zaman
democratically elected Turkish government would wish to hinder free access to social mobility or access to financial or career-related rewards given to whose who have earned them. However, social mobility and access ...