Top professions out of reach - government report
Top professions, such as medicine and law, are increasingly inaccessible to all but the most affluent, according to a new government report on social mobility. The report looks into widening access to high-status jobs and recommends that young people in England have access to much better careers advice.
The report also recommends that government should work with universities to develop proposals to integrate a flexible element of professional experience into all higher education courses; comments on major graduate recruiters' widespread use of targeting particular universities and using school exam results as a basis on which to select graduates; and includes a whole raft of recommendations on internships.
It recommends the break-up of the Connexions service and says that schools, colleges and the professions in England should work together to provide much better careers information, advice and guidance for school pupils and their parents.
The report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions, which was chaired by Alan Milburn, is called Unleashing Aspiration and is available for download below.
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Unleashing Aspiration downloads
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- Summary and recommendations (358.1 KB)
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Created on: 21 July 2009
Last updated: 28 July 2009