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Social mobility
June 2022
Boris Johnson a bad role model for children, says social mobility tsar
UK social mobility tsar wants focus on ‘small steps’ not giant leaps
May 2022
Social mobility prospects for young people ‘disappearing’, says research
City scheme aims to close financial sector’s class pay gap
March 2022
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
Restrict phones to improve child social mobility in UK, says commission chair
Katharine Birbalsingh tells school leaders’ conference ‘all the problems start on smartphones’
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Lack of social mobility in UK risks fuelling populism, says Fiona Hill
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County Durham-born former White House adviser says social divide is so wide it could become a security crisis
August 2021
‘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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