Nick Clegg chairs meeting on educational inequality in Sheffield
Back in January, the Social Market Foundation, a think tank, established its cross-party Commission on Inequality in Education. It wants to tackle the disparity of attainment and break down barriers it...
View ArticleClaire Tyler writes: Breaking through the class ceiling
Too often, success in accessing our top professions is down to the lucky accident of birth. Too often, structural inequalities mean that young children find themselves imprisoned on an inescapable...
View ArticleLibLink Layla Moran: Public school exam cheating row shows just how unlevel...
Oxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran has been writing for Times Red Box about the exam cheating scandal and why it matters. These are not victimless crimes. I feel especially sorry for those...
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Demand Better: Liberal Democrat Priorities for a Better Britain
For as long as I’ve been active in politics people have complained they don’t know what we stand for. We may have a reasonable profile for our position on Brexit, but the fact that we’re only the...
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Book Review: The End of Aspiration? by Duncan Exley
Subtitled Social mobility and our children’s fading prospects, Duncan Exley’s book explores the facts and myths around aspiration. Referencing many studies, linked with real-life stories of people who...
View Article21 May 2019 – today’s press releases
Moran: Let’s hope more Universities follow Oxford’s diversity drive Hobhouse: End short prison sentences to cut crime Cable: Stop Brexit altogether to end turmoil for British business Chancellor’s...
View ArticleThe best way to answer Coalition guilt-shaming is to challenge austerity and...
The election of a new Liberal Democrat leader has been followed by a predictable burst of accusations and guilt-shaming – mostly, but not only, from Labour sources – regarding the Lib Dems’ part in the...
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