Social mobility commissioner Alun Francis told the Guardian there was no "overarching narrative" to pull different policies ...

Monday's papers include a warning from the government's social mobility commissioner that Sir Keir lacks a clear strategy to ...

Brits growing up today in former industrial and mining heartlands have faced half a century of economic disadvantage ...

FORMER heavy industry and mining communities face entrenched disadvantage stretching back 50 years, new research has ...

Concerns have been raised about the number of young people who are out of work, training and education but Cumbria is bucking the national trend.

The WSJ/College Pulse Social Mobility ranking lists colleges in order of how much they enhance their students’ social mobility. It rewards universities that take in the highest proportion of students ...

Paul Gregg receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. He is a former commissioner on the Social Mobility Commission. Jeremy Corbyn has signalled that a new Labour government under ...

Public confidence in higher education has been on a sharp decline for nearly a decade. Rising education costs and soaring student loans debts led some to question the value of a college degree. Others ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Back in the 1980s ...

Sir Keir Starmer does not have a "coherent approach to social mobility", the government's social mobility commissioner has ...