Upcoming Events
Events
Education and Social Mobility: Challenges and Opportunities
05 June 2008 -The event recordings are now available to download:
Nick Clegg keynote speech (mp3)
Nick Clegg Q&A (mp3)
ippr hosted a keynote speech by Rt. Hon Nick Clegg MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats.
The last few years have witnessed important shifts in the political agenda on schools in England. Politicians have returned to the idea that schools have a wider role to fulfil than simply delivering on narrow measures of attainment – in equipping young people with the skills they need to progress in society in a changing economic context.
This event takes this shift as its starting point, asking what schools need to do to support social mobility and equal life chances for all young people in today's economy. In a context of concern about the performance of English schools in international surveys, Nick Clegg looks to the future of educational reform, considering the changing needs, goals and objectives of schools and will set out his ideas to address the barriers that prevent our school system from being world-class.
Capable Communities
Public Service Reform: The next chapter
In this paper we turn our attention to the role citizens and communities can play in directly producing services, setting out the challenges that lie ahead, and identifying the questions our research will seek to answer over the coming months.
The English Question
ippr surveys MPs
ippr has conducted a survey of MPs to find out if they think that England is losing out as a result of these changes, as many people have claimed.
You Can’t Put Me In A Box
Super-diversity and the end of identity politics in Britain
This paper attempts to map out just how diverse Britain is, both in terms of who lives in Britain and how they identify themselves.