If policy makers are to develop effective policies to drive improved social mobility it is essential that there is a good understanding of current patterns of mobility and about how well the Government's policies are working in delivering on this goal. Improving data on …
Our State of the Nation highlighted a worrying fall in the numbers of part-time students. Universities UK (UUK) published a report yesterday showing further dramatic falls in part-time undergraduate study, which make uncomfortable reading for anyone interested in this mode …
Last month our Chair, Alan Milburn and Douglas Hamilton held a series of meetings in Scotland to highlight the importance of social mobility, hear about the challenges facing Scottish society in making progress in improving it and to discuss the …
The UK has a low pay problem that is getting worse. The number of people on low pay is up a quarter of a million year on year to more than five million, or around a fifth of workers. The …
A number of people – including the Commission and many others – are concerned by the fact that those at the top of many of our professions are unrepresentative of the UK population. One question we have been asked in …
Apprenticeships are a route to social mobility. Research has shown that apprentices earn more over their working life than those who just do A-levels. And with the six-fold growth of higher apprenticeships since 2010/11 there are more chances than ever …
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 “social mobility is now a matter of greater political concern…the …
Living Wage Week 2014 brings mixed news about efforts to tackle low pay. While the number of accredited Living Wage employers has increased to over 1,000 this has not been enough to stop the number of people on low pay …
Our annual State of the Nation report was laid before the UK Parliament on 20 October. In it we assess the progress that the UK is making on improving social mobility and reducing child poverty and the contributions being …
It is said that success has many parents, and that has certainly been true of the London Challenge – the much-feted programme of between-school collaboration in the 2000s, whose steps included groups of heads benchmarking themselves using ‘families of schools’ …