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Social mobility

June 2022

  • Boris Johnson during his speech at Blackpool and The Fylde College in Blackpool, Lancashire

    Boris Johnson a bad role model for children, says social mobility tsar

  • Katharine Birbalsingh at Michaela community school last month

    UK social mobility tsar wants focus on ‘small steps’ not giant leaps

May 2022

  • Decline in UK home ownership over two decades has disproportionately affected those from poorer backgrounds.

    Social mobility prospects for young people ‘disappearing’, says research

  • Traders work on the trading floor of Barclays Bank at Canary Wharf in London.

    City scheme aims to close financial sector’s class pay gap

March 2022

  • Oldham council leader Arooj Shah and Eton headteacher Simon Henderson

    Headteacher defends plan for free ‘Etons of the north’ sixth forms

    Eton head says rigorous admissions policy will prevent middle-class parents from gaming the system
  • Katharine Birbalsingh, head teacher at Michaela school in London.

    Restrict phones to improve child social mobility in UK, says commission chair

    Katharine Birbalsingh tells school leaders’ conference ‘all the problems start on smartphones’
  • Laced with tenderness … Kyle Rowe and Eddie-Joe Robinson in Sorry, You’re Not a Winner at Theatre Royal Plymouth.

    Sorry, You’re Not a Winner review – gripping story of social mobility

    Jesse Jones directs a superb production of Samuel Bailey’s nuanced drama about a friendship between two young men which is put to the test

February 2022

  • Will Hutton

    Kicking universities is no way to solve the divide between the academic and the rest

    Will Hutton
    Yes, there’s a class lottery for resources. But let’s not forget what we do well
  • A child reading a book in class

    Improving literacy means a book – or an iPad – at bedtime, say researchers

    If ministers want to boost reading and maths scores in schools, they must involve parents, according to social mobility experts
  • Pupils sitting an exam.

    Minimum GCSE threshold for student loans will hit poorest hardest, say experts

    Critics say government plan to block candidates in England who fail GCSE maths or English is retrograde step

January 2022

  • Adrian Chiles

    Do university applications favour middle-class kids? Yes – because their parents write them

    Adrian Chiles
    Britain’s only social mobility professor says personal statements should be scrapped. But the problem takes root much earlier, writes Adrian Chiles

December 2021

  • Goldman Sachs logo besides a stock market ticker

    Goldman Sachs starts trading floor apprenticeship scheme to boost diversity

    Paid on-the-job learning and study plan at investment bank part of push to attract trainees from less-affluent backgrounds

November 2021

  • Frances Ryan

    Suffering has become normalised in Britain. We can do better than this

    Frances Ryan
    There are ways to restore compassion to society, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

October 2021

  • Pupils at a school

    Deprived schools in England ‘getting less money after funding overhaul’

    Commons report says changes have resulted in per-pupil funding increasing for better-off schools
  • Katharine Birbalsingh

    Social mobility tsar wants campaign against toddlers having mobile phones

    Katharine Birbalsingh says she wants to educate parents that the devices will make reading harder for children

    • ‘Give people money and they’re no longer poor, it’s not rocket science’: Sammy Wright of the Social Mobility Commission

    • The Guardian view on social mobility: don’t turn it into a culture war

    • UK’s ‘strictest’ headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh made social mobility chief

September 2021

  • Fiona Hill arriving to testify at the impeachment of inquiry Donald Trump in 2019. Hill, a coalminers daughter, served under three US presidents.

    Lack of social mobility in UK risks fuelling populism, says Fiona Hill

    Exclusive: County Durham-born former White House adviser says social divide is so wide it could become a security crisis

August 2021

  • Katharine Birbalsingh

    ‘Super-strict’ London headteacher in running to be social mobility champion

    Right-leaning Katharine Birbalsingh criticised ‘chaotic’ state schools at Tory party conference in 2010
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