Tag: Social Mobility Commission

Social mobility tsar quits: ‘I’m doing more harm than good’

Katharine Birbalsingh, who has been in post just over a year, tells Schools Week her reputation for controversial opinions ‘puts the commission in jeopardy’

‘Put the blinkers on and ignore Ofsted’ says government social mobility tsar

Katharine Birbalsingh says she doesn’t see inspectorate as a ‘force for good’

Katharine Birbalsingh in contention to be government’s new social mobility tsar

Headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh is a leading contender to be the government’s new social mobility commissioner, Schools Week has learned. The founder of Michaela Community School, a free school in north-west London, has applied to lead the commission. It is thought that Birbalsingh is on the shortlist alongside several others, but the recruitment process is ongoing. […]

Government social mobility tzar Dame Martina Milburn resigns

The chair of the government’s Social Mobility Commission has resigned after just two years in the job. Dame Martina Milburn was appointed in May 2018, but now says she needs to focus her attention on her day job as chief executive of the Prince’s Trust. She is the second chair of the commission to resign […]

Admissions shake-up call as report reveals lack of diversity in top roles

Almost two in five MPs serving in top government positions were privately educated, despite just seven per cent of people nationally attending independent schools, a new report has found. The Social Mobility Commission and Sutton Trust have called for changes to school admissions and an opening-up of private schools after their Elitist Britain 2019 report […]

Teacher supply and school funding on the agenda for new Social Mobility Commission team

The rejuvenated Social Mobility Commission will investigate school funding issues and the teacher recruitment and retention crisis, its new chair has said. Dame Martina Milburn pledged to “change things” as she introduced 12 new commissioners and announced £2 million of additional government research funding at a re-launch event at a central London college this week. […]

Twelve new social mobility commissioners appointed

An academy leader is one of 12 new commissioners appointed today to join the Social Mobility Commission, education secretary Damian Hinds has announced. Approved by the prime minister and the public appointments committee, the team will join chair of the commission Dame Martina Milburn (pictured above), the head of the Prince’s Trust, who took up the […]