Traditional providers alone can’t solve inequality “The next government must fully embrace ‘second-chance’ education in the drive to reverse the decline in social mobility.” Writing in FE Week Esther Chesterman, CEO of the National Extension College explains that traditional providers don’t hold all the solutions to our failing social mobility and that distance learning providers […]
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The key to reviving social mobility
In our blog post on 13th July 2023, Is education the answer to social mobility? The contribution of the National Extension College, Ros Morpeth, Board of Trustees Member and former CEO of NEC, penned a powerful letter in response to an article by Polly Toynbee (At last, Labour is admitting the defining role of class […]
Is education the answer to social mobility? The contribution of the National Extension College.
All political parties talk loudly about their commitment to social mobility and levelling up, but progress over the last decades has been dire and many commentators agree that that social mobility has gone into reverse and is maybe about to get worse. In a recent article in the Guardian, (At last, Labour is admitting the […]