June 15, 2015
The Social Mobility Foundation today echoes the call by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission to make access to a top job genuinely meritocratic and suggests they follow the examples of the leading firms in their fields. Research published by the Commission today shows that too many firms are judging candidates on factors ‘associated […]
June 8, 2015
There are a great deal of challenges in modern life, not least of which is the job market. When you start out at school with teachers and peers urging you to discover what you want in life, it can be incredibly difficult to think about what to do, or even how to get there. Now […]
June 1, 2015
Faced with the pressure to make the grades, decide on universities and execute outstanding applications, sixth form can be a time of stress and panic. Often, questions arise about the future and whether certain career paths are viable. ‘What job am I going to have? How do I decide between the thousands of degree courses […]
May 27, 2015
This year marks ten years of the Social Mobility Foundation, and the start of a journey to help level the playing field for disadvantaged young people across the UK. Until recently, while we have always offered opportunities to students across the UK, the focus of the SMF has been on the great need for solutions […]
May 6, 2015
We set a record for the SMF this year during the Easter holidays, running 18 events over just three weeks! SMF staff and students from all over the UK hopped on coaches, trains and buses to visit universities away from home and across the country. From Southampton, to Birmingham, to York and many in between, […]
March 31, 2015
“Network to get work”,”It’s who you know, not what you know”…we’ve heard it all before, and when it comes to job hunting these sentiments begin to ring very true. Talking to people, mingling and making connections are a sure way to find out more about, and secure, opportunities. This is usually the way we talk about […]
March 31, 2015
We have been very busy over the last few weeks here at the Social Mobility Foundation (SMF), kicking off the Aspiring Professionals Programme (APP) with seven launch events across the country. Welcoming our largest cohort to date, we have hosted students in Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London and Manchester to introduce them to all the […]
March 31, 2015
I had always struggled in deciding what I wanted to do, at one point I wanted to be just about everything. Soon I decided that because I loved to write stories with my Nan and I loved books that I would become a writer…or a librarian or a book shop owner. I decided to focus […]
March 8, 2015
The Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) today publishes an independent evaluation by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), funded by JPMorgan Chase Foundation, which examines the SMF’s impact on the university destinations of young people on its programmes. It finds that the impact of its programme on participants, who are high achievers from disadvantaged backgrounds, is […]
February 4, 2015
Name: Yvonne Home area: Camden, London Career aspiration: Barrister I am the eldest of three children. Neither of my parents attended university as they were refugees from the Vietnam War who came to the UK when they were teenagers. So when it came to higher education, I was clueless and dependent upon information from my […]
