scholarly journals The Millennium Development Goals Agenda: Constraints of Culture, Economy, and Empowerment in Influencing the Social Mobility of Pakistani Girls on Mathematics and Science Related Higher Education Courses in Universities in Pakistan

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamjid Mujtaba ◽  
Michael J. Reiss
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Education Courses ◽  
Mathematics And Science

Documenting mobility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Payne
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Education Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conservative Policy ◽  
Cherry Picking ◽  
Independent Commission

While mobility was the sole concern of recent politics, its importance can be gauged from official documents. These include Labour’s White Paper New Opportunities (2009); the Liberal Democrats’ ‘Independent Commission on Social Mobility’ (2009); Conservative policy papers Building Skills, Transforming Lives (2008) and Through the Glass Ceiling(2008); the Coalition’s Opening Doors, Breaking Barriers: a strategy for social mobility (2011) and White Paper Higher Education: Students at the Heart of the System (2011), and the Conservatives’ Fulfilling Our Potential (2015); plus reports from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (‘SMCPC’), the All-party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility (2012), and briefings like the Cabinet Office Strategy Unit’s Getting on, getting ahead (2008). A review of these reveals wrong technical definitions, cherry-picking of research evidence, and unwarranted assumptions about early life intervention as a mobility facilitator.

scholarly journals Contribution of Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste to the Social Inclusion in Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. M. Lino ◽  
K. A. R. Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Metropolitan City ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Selective Collection

This paper proposes the selective collection and recycling as alternative ways to promote the social inclusion in Brazil and help the country to eradicate extreme poverty and misery and achieve the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG1) of the UN. This work is based on the data from a Brazilian metropolitan city of Campinas and is extended to Brazil. The results show that the municipality of Campinas collects monthly 8000 tons of recyclables which if recycled can avail jobs to nearly 13,000 waste collectors with a minimum national salary of R$ 622/month or alternatively can create 40,280 Family Grants of R$ 200/month. In Brazil, the collected recyclables potential is about 2.4 million tons per month which can avail jobs to 2,350945 waste collectors or alternatively create about 7.3 millions Family Grants.

scholarly journals Social Mobility in the UK's Higher Education Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Jamie P. Halsall ◽  
Elizabeth F. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education And Employment

Social mobility is at the forefront of the British Government's plans to improve the lives of the most deprived groups in society. Since the election of the New Labour government in May 1997, consecutive governments have championed the concept of social mobility. The fundamental aim of social mobility is to tackle social barriers for disadvantaged groups in education and employment. However, within the social sciences there has been a lack of critical discussion regarding the theorisation of social mobility within the context of higher education (HE). In recent times higher education research has instead had a greater focus on pedagogy. The aim of this review is to critically explore past and current debates on social mobility, and the importance the concept has in the higher education sector. In this paper special reference will be made to the new UK government higher education policy on the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

scholarly journals Values in social responsibility in higher education

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
María Inés Ruiz Garay
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Active Member ◽  
Human Group ◽  
The People ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Globalized World

At present, society that is immersed in a maelstrom of changes in all areas, demanding new adaptations to the human group to constitute links that build the development of the population and people in a particular way requires appreciation of the importance of higher education as the foundation of a more prosperous, just and supportive society. Tünnermann1 points out that higher education in this century demands flexibility in its "doing" and "doing", reforming its structures and working methods and integrating a prospective vision where imagination and creativity - inspired by solidarity, equity and respect for the environment - be the basis of the learning process of the people; a process that would facilitate access to the globalized world of work and, as an active member, to reach the Millennium Development Goals by 2030, which are proposals for the great problems facing the population in this age, especially Latin America and El Salvador. Caribbean

Social Mobility in Chilean Youth and Their Parents: A Generational Analysis from the Perspective of Social Reproduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 0094582X2093910
Author(s):  
Luis Miguel Rodrigo ◽  
Mauricio Oyarzo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Cycle Effects

Recent studies on Chile agree that the country’s youth enjoy greater social mobility than previous generations. This has been attributed either to their greater access to higher education or to life-cycle effects on occupation. A test of these two hypotheses by estimating the socioeconomic positions of four generations of Chileans using a model of analysis based on the social reproduction paradigm shows that younger generations of Chileans have a lower level of social inheritance than the rest of the population only during their initial years in the labor market. Therefore, the greater social mobility observed in them is temporary and is explained by life-cycle effects on occupation. Estudios recientes sobre Chile coinciden en que la actual juventud chilena goza de una mayor movilidad social que las generaciones anteriores. Esto se ha atribuido a su mayor acceso a la educación superior o a los efectos del ciclo de vida en la ocupación. Aquí se examinan estas dos hipótesis a partir de una aproximación en torno a las posiciones socioeconómicas de cuatro generaciones chilenas. Se utiliza un modelo analítico asentado en el paradigma de la reproducción social, el cual nos muestra que las generaciones más jóvenes tienen un grado de herencia social más bajo que el resto de la población tan sólo durante sus primeros años como participantes en el mercado laboral. Por lo tanto, su mayor movilidad social es temporal y se explica a partir de los efectos del ciclo de vida en la ocupación.

Social Mobility in the UK's Higher Education Sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 1662-1673
Author(s):  
Jamie P. Halsall ◽  
Elizabeth F. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education And Employment

Social mobility is at the forefront of the British Government's plans to improve the lives of the most deprived groups in society. Since the election of the New Labour government in May 1997, consecutive governments have championed the concept of social mobility. The fundamental aim of social mobility is to tackle social barriers for disadvantaged groups in education and employment. However, within the social sciences there has been a lack of critical discussion regarding the theorisation of social mobility within the context of higher education (HE). In recent times higher education research has instead had a greater focus on pedagogy. The aim of this review is to critically explore past and current debates on social mobility, and the importance the concept has in the higher education sector. In this paper special reference will be made to the new UK government higher education policy on the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

scholarly journals Has Migration Been Beneficial for Migrants and Their Children?

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina V. Zuccotti ◽  
Harry B. G. Ganzeboom ◽  
Ayse Guveli
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Western European ◽  
First And Second Generation

The study compares the social mobility and status attainment of first-and second-generation Turks in nine Western European countries with those of Western European natives and with those of Turks in Turkey. It shows that the children of low-class migrants are more likely to acquire a higher education than their counterparts in Turkey, making them more educationally mobile. Moreover, they successfully convert this education in the Western European labor market, and are upwardly mobile relative to the first generation. When comparing labor market outcomes of second generations relative to Turks in Turkey, however, the results show that the same level of education leads to a higher occupation in Turkey. The implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Diversity In The International Charity Sector

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Asante
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Sector

This paper contributes to the current debate on racial diversity in the third sector. It offers a critical analysis of the social mobility issues in the international charity sector, by evaluating ethnic minority intake in higher education and employment.It links the disparities in both areas to question what more can be done to improve the social mobility and race issues that are prevalent in the international sector, and the charity sector as a whole.

scholarly journals Millennium Development Goals in Vietnam: Taking Multi-sectoral Action to Improve Health and Address the Social Determinants

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Van Minh ◽  
Juhwan Oh ◽  
Luu Ngoc Hoat ◽  
Jong-Koo Lee ◽  
Jennifer Stewart Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Determinants ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Improve Health

Disabled Students Seeking Higher Education in Kashmir: A Study of their Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-146
Author(s):  
Tanveer Ahmad Khan ◽  
Wasia Hamid ◽  
Mohmad Saleem Jahangir ◽  
Tabbasum Maqbool
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The University

The present study aimed to understand the experiences of disabled students while gaining higher education in Kashmir. According to the conference on the ‘Rights of Persons with Disability’, Article 24, 2(a), disabled persons should not be barred from broader education organizations due to their disability. Besides, the ‘Millennium Development Goals’ and ‘Education for All’ insist on justice, equality and quality education for all. Yet, like in other societies, in Kashmir too disabled people face a large number of obstacles while attempting to achieve higher education. The study was conducted on 21 disabled students studying at the University of Kashmir during the year 2018. The results revealed that disabled people face a large number of obstacles while accessing education and come across a vast amount of challenges such as experiencing harassment, being excluded from the university, lack of institutional support, accommodation, financial support, seminars and infrastructure and facilities necessary to obtain benefits from the equivalent quality of education as their colleague.

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