Our collaboration with social entrepreneurs, the exchange of our team’s expertise, and our commitment to their growth are fundamental to PwC UK’s purpose of building trust in society and solving important problems. This initiative aligns seamlessly with PwC UK’s successful social mobility programm...
Our exploratory analysis provides several interesting results; though they present a generally pessimistic picture of potential social mobility through higher education. We find that higher class background is a key factor in admissions to elite professional programmes, especially evident in the exemplar ...
‘The UK Social Mobility Awards are all about making the advancement of social mobility a key part of how organisations are run in this country. As an accomplished scale-up, when Callsign approached us with the idea of a specific start-up award, we immediately recognised th...
HFW has today been ranked as one of the Top 50 employers in the UK’s first-ever Social Mobility Employer Index The Index is a joint initiative between the Social Mobility Foundation and Social Mobility Commission, in partnership with the City of London Corporation. It ranks Britain’s ...
Jobs overseas are a huge opportunity for millions of people otherwise living in poverty. But current labor migration systems encourage migrants to take on debt and service providers (i.e. agents) to behave poorly, undermining the development impact of labor mobility and fuelling the numbers of re...
There is widespread agreement that business schools should do more to provide research and teaching for the next generation of students with greater focus on sustainability, ethics and social purpose. But there is no consensus of what that involves or how to measure it. ...
problems in the human domain are much more difficult to describe in any systematic, complete and precise way – a challenge known as the “frame problem” in artificial intelligence. This is particularly true of “wicked problems” – challenges such as social mobility or vulnerable families that...
The Rt. Hon. Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility Foundation, added:“As the COVID-19 crisis continues and the UK descends into a sharp recession, more will need to be done to avoid a job catastrophe, for young people particularly. Already 60% of the jobs that have b...
Such agendas are intended to lead to the enhancement of all aspects of the community and, we argue, can improve the social mobility of all members of the collective.doi:10.1080/02690940903367892Bell, SimonLane, AmandaRePEcLocal EconomyBell, S., Lane, A. (2008) Creating Sustainable Communities ...
Secondly, it considers some of the emergent empirical research of transport-related exclusion that has attempted to measure and model the interactions between transport and mobility inequalities and relational negative social outcomes. Thirdly, it offers observations on progress in some key areas of ...