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3/3. Written by Chris Bayes. “talent is spread equally across our country, opportunity is not” and seeks to redress this “giving everyone the opportunity to flourish.” The ‘Brave New World’ of Levelling Up At a recent NEON Summit on Regional disparities in widening access and higher education’s contribution to levelling up, one speaker (Stephen Pomfret,Continue reading “‘Juxtaposed with U’ – The problem with Social Mobility and Levelling Up“

2/3 Written By Chris Bayes. The industry of Social Mobility Over the course of the two past decades, Social Mobility has increasingly become intertwined with WP.  This is perhaps unsurprising, given it has been championed successively by New Labour and Conservative administrations and is easier to reconcile the below definition with the values of neoliberalsContinue reading “‘Juxtaposed with U’ – The problem with Social Mobility and Levelling Up“

Article Piece 1/3 Written By Chris Bayes Shifting Sands The political landscape does not stand still for very long.  Labour’s most successful 20th century Prime Minister, Harold Wilson (Yes, he won four elections to Tony Blair’s three and unlike BLiar managed to avoid tarnishing his legacy by keeping Britain’s involvement in Vietnam to lukewarm verbalContinue reading “‘Juxtaposed with U’ – The problem with Social Mobility and Levelling Up“

Written by Chris Bayes. Like many of my practitioner brethren, it would be fair to say my journey to becoming a widening participation (WP) practitioner was not exactly linear.  Prior to commencing a career in WP in 2007, I worked (in chronological order) as a paperboy, a factory worker, a retail assistant, a barman cumContinue reading “(Vocational) Education (reform) is over-rated and T Levels are the monster it created”