http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2005/11/eclectic_link_d_15/ Tim Ireland on tabloids, media, blogs and politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:32:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2005/11/eclectic_link_d_15/comment-page-1/#comment-24089 Dead Revenant Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:13:07 +0000 http://www.bloggerheads.com/wp/2005/11/eclectic_link_d_15/#comment-24089 Just as an aside, check out page 8 of this <a href="http://www.strategy.gov.uk/downloads/files/socialmobility.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.strategy.gov.uk/downloads/files/socialmobility.pdf</a> document from the PM's strategy unit. In discussing how to create a meritocracy (should one want to) it established four means:- Removing Barriers to upward Mobility- Positively assisting upward Mobility- Removing Barriers to Downward Mobility- Positively assisting downward MobilityIt then goes on to list possible policies for each of these. What's interesting however is that, under Removing Barriers to *Downward* Mobility, it says the government could try:"reducing the weight given to geographical catchment area as adeterminant of access to the best State schools"Kinda puts a new spin on the PM's educational policies... Just as an aside, check out page 8 of this http://www.strategy.gov.uk/downloads/files/socialmobility.pdf document from the PM’s strategy unit. In discussing how to create a meritocracy (should one want to) it established four means:- Removing Barriers to upward Mobility- Positively assisting upward Mobility- Removing Barriers to Downward Mobility- Positively assisting downward MobilityIt then goes on to list possible policies for each of these. What’s interesting however is that, under Removing Barriers to *Downward* Mobility, it says the government could try:”reducing the weight given to geographical catchment area as adeterminant of access to the best State schools”Kinda puts a new spin on the PM’s educational policies…

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