...can be done about this? Schools are one of the most important institutions in helping unlock children’s potential. The Commission’s report on Cracking the Code highlighted how schools can improve...
Today saw the publication of an interesting new study from the University of Oxford analysing trends over time in social mobility from a sociological perspective. As the authors note, while...
...to be far stronger on some central issues like low pay and childcare. For example it merely reminds employers to pay the National Minimum Wage - not even going as...
...the Institute of Education – raises as many questions as it answers, but this shouldn’t distract from its central messages. First, that primary schools have been the biggest driver of...
...provides a window into the future. Our central conclusion is that the next Government will have to adopt radical new approaches to meet what we define as the “2020 Challenge”...
...to someone coming from a background where survival is paramount. Growing up poor, your brain is constantly working out how to get through today; and planning to work out tomorrow...
...call to make the Living Wage the statutory minimum today. That must remain as a wage floor which is set with regard to protecting jobs. But, with a decade to...
...many low-paid workers interviewed for the study believed that the downsides of promotion – such as increases in responsibility, changes to working arrangements, changes to relationships with colleagues and additional...