Making equal : new visions for opportunity and growth

Presenting new, challenging solutions to the severe problem of inequality in the UK, Making Equal brings together a wide range of senior respective figures across the fields of politics, academia and the voluntary sector to outline their visions of how a less unequal Britain could be created and why...

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Other Authors Atherton, Graeme (Editor), John, Peter (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.
Subjects
Equality > Great Britain.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781836089186
DOI10.1108/9781836089162
Physical Description1 online resource (296 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Peter John
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Inequality and breaking with the norm / Graeme Atherton
  • Section 1: - creating opportunity from birth
  • Chapter 2. The birth of injustice / Philip Collins
  • Chapter 3. 'It's human capital, stupid' / David Blunkett
  • Chapter 4. The coordination conundrum: Three core policy principles for post-16 education and training / James Robson
  • Chapter 5. Inequality and lifelong learning / Jonathan Michie
  • Chapter 6. "social mobility and the ministry of poverty" / John Bird
  • Section 2: - higher education - the driver of growth and opportunity
  • Chapter 7. Higher education expansion as a growth strategy / Steve Coulter
  • Chapter 8. Shaping higher education: Driving economic prosperity and sustainability through engineering and technology / Hilary Leevers
  • Chapter 9. Equal opportunities, equal outcomes and higher education: Choice or circumstance? / Peter John
  • Chapter 10. Leading in place: The value of a holistic approach to driving social mobility and regional development / Kathryn Mitchell, Larissa Allwork, and Gaynor Davis
  • Section 3: - making places matter
  • Chapter 11. A question of scale: Refocusing policy towards tackling neighbourhood level inequality / Matt Leach
  • Chapter 12. Pulling together, a cross-sector collaboration approach to tackling inequality / Ian Taylor
  • Chapter 13. Investing in regional equality: How are international success factors playing out in the UK? / Abigail Taylor
  • Section 4: - growth, the economy and the role of business
  • Chapter 14. Why a failure to address inequality fails us all / Nigel Wilcock
  • Chapter 15. The role of co-operative growth in reducing inequality in britain / Daniel Monaghan
  • Chapter 16. Social mobility and business regulation / Andy Boucher
  • Chapter 17. Tech for good: From disparity to opportunity / Nimmi Patel
  • Chapter 18. Britain's 21st century challenge: Employers must drive social mobility too / Justine Greening
  • Section 5: - labour and inequality - past, present and future
  • Chapter 19. Labour's long march for equality: A continuing incompleteness, a continuing struggle / Hilary Armstrong
  • Chapter 20. Inequality street? Realism and riots in the 2024 UK general election and after / Rupa Huq
  • Chapter 21. Labour: Past, present, future and the 2024 general election / Jon Cruddas
  • Chapter 22. Conclusion / Graeme Atherton.

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