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Mehdi's Morning Memo: 'Crunch Week' For Osborne

Huffington Post | Mehdi Hasan | Posted 22.04.2013 | UK Politics
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The ten things you need to know on Monday 22 April... 1) 'CRUNCH WEEK' FOR OSBORNE The Telegraph says this is the "crunch week" for the chancell...

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Collaboration Not Competition Is the Key to Social Mobility

Dr Tessa Stone | Posted 29.12.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: University, Alan Milburn, Outreach, Social Mobility, Higher Education, Widening Participation, Brightside, UK Business, UK Universities & Education News
Dr Tessa Stone

We need to identify what universities and businesses can, and can't, do in this arena, and then create regional consortia to offer an holistic package to schools that they can properly engage with and which will fulfil their IAG needs.

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RNCF Charity Calls for all Boarding Schools to Have 'Social' Bursaries

Colin Morrison | Posted 21.12.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Alan Milburn, Social Mobility, Boarding School, Royal National Children's Foundation, UK Universities & Education News
Colin Morrison

It is important not to lose sight of the disadvantaged young people who need (and deserve) not only a good school but also a safe, secure, and supportive home.

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Scrapping The EMA Was A 'Very Bad Mistake' Rules Social Mobility Tsar

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 18.10.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Alan Milburn, Ema, Social Mobility, Poll, UK News, Michael Gove, UK Universities, UK Politics, UK Universities & Education News

The coalition's social mobility tsar has condemned the controversial scrapping of the education maintenance allowance, the grants which enabled poor t...

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'Not A Snowball's Chance In Hell' Of Hitting Child Poverty Targets

PA | Posted 10.07.2012 | UK
Read More: Alan Milburn, Child Poverty, UK Government, Social Mobility, UK News, Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, UK Politics, UK News

There is not a "snowball's chance in hell" that the UK will eradicate child poverty by 2020, a government adviser has said. It is time to "come cle...

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Government Hires Doogie Howser, M.D. As Social Mobility Advisor

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.05.2012 | UK Comedy
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Following calls that it should do more to improve social mobility in the medical profession, the Government has hired medical whizz kid Doogie Howser,...

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Medicine And Law 'Shut Out' Poorer Students

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education
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Medical schools should widen the pool of talent from which doctors are recruited by making it easier for youngsters from poorer backgrounds to study m...

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Child Poverty is a Tough Nut to Crack - But it is Wrong to Say it Can't Be Done

Anne Longfield | Posted 10.03.2012 | UK Politics
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Anne Longfield

Just as Westminster and Whitehall were winding down for Christmas, Alan Milburn, the former minister and current government child poverty and social mobility Tsar, gave his first speech on child poverty.

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Interim Reviewer of Child Poverty Says Eradicating Child Poverty by 2020 a 'Fantasy'?

Sam Royston | Posted 15.02.2012 | UK Politics
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Sam Royston

We very much hope that Alan Milburn, and the Child Poverty and Social Mobility Commission once it is established, will put it to the government that they need to go back to the drawing board and come up with a plan which, even if it won't end child poverty by 2020, will prevent current projections becoming reality, and start working towards that goal once again.

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Child Poverty: Review Warns Coalition Will Fail To Meet 2020 Targets

PA | Posted 12.02.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Alan Milburn, Child Poverty, UK Poverty, UK Charity, Poverty, UK News, UK Economy, 2020 Child Poverty Targets, Save the Children, UK Politics News

The Coalition will fail to meet its target to eradicate child poverty by 2020, the Government's independent reviewer on social mobility has warned. ...

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