Alan Milburn, the Labor Party Ex-minister, has proposed to provide the youth with a wider choice of careers, but Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, said that this proposal was not taken seriously enough to be considered. The social mobility adviser of the Deputy PM stated that educational institutions should make a lot of efforts to take more applicants choosing professions of doctors, journalists and lawyers.
Mr. Milburn told that there were some barriers to provide a sufficient number of the work experience possibilities and internships. According to his report, efforts to increase students’ aspiration at school and familiarity with their future careers are too scattered and unclear. A lot of companies recruit from a limited range of both higher education institutions and regions. Either work experience or internships play a significant role for the students’ future employment but they still have to be lucky enough to find the places to undergo practical training. The process of career selection is accidental as well. After students receive their university degrees, they grip on the labor market with their both hands.
Mr. Milburn, calling the period from 1950 to 1970 as the ‘golden age’ of social mobility, claimed that even now the employment level was increasing despite the weak situation in the current economy and the social mobility issue could be solved. However, Mr. Clegg did not agree with his viewpoint stating that this was a complicated problem and it was impossible to solve it in such a short stretch of time. The economic progress is slow and problems are sometimes not taken seriously in some branches of industries. The only measure promised by the government is the establishment of the commission dealing with the issues of child poverty and social mobility.
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Good points Alan . hope it opens doors…
I’m sorry, but this is more delusional left-wing nonsense. I don’t believe for one minutes companies hungry for talent would ignore these Universities if they were producing what they need. It’s a tough World.
I think that it may be tied to known standards too. When studying for a national qualification I stated on a few occasions that the course standard was too low. This was bourne out by the fact that I achieved 97% and still failed to get the qualification because -…the standards set for the course were set too low and did not meet the minimum requirement for the qualification. Standards vary. These large companies know a thing or two about recruiting to the right standard. That’s why they are succesful.
Has he interviewed the students that ‘Graduate’ from those Polytechnics?
I have and unfortunately they did not know the basics.
Its a hard job, better to fish in the sea with most available…
Maybe it’s because they’re all getting stoned listening to Earth, Wind and Fire
We do not want or need more ‘social mobility’ within the same disparities of wealth, we want a more equitable distribution of wealth and less structural inequality.
I think something should seriously be done to stop all discrimination against those from public school. It is unfair to expect them all to work for their parents.
This makes me sick.
It’s no accident. It’s all deliberate. THEY know exactly what they’re doing, protecting themselves and their privilege, passing it on to their kids while other people’s kids suffer.
What’s the alternative? Vote Labour? Hahahahahaha
This will be one of those reports that people will come back to in fifty years’ time and say ‘They knew what would happen all along, and still did nothing…’
This whole recent Westminster village obsession with the of ‘social mobility’ is just a PR red herring.
Education is failing – the Professions require exams, and need to work to standards obviously, however much that annoys the promoters of skill-free ‘social justice’.
Bring back the grammar schools!
The children of the working classes, did not do well at grammar schools and go to University.
The ones who did were the children of foremen and office workers who didn’t drink and smoke, who stayed married and went to church.