Achieving social mobility

Virtualized Approach Towards Achieving Seamless Mobility

The advent of the genre of personal computing and its gradual evolution into the ‘state of the art’ pervasive and ubiquitous computing era has resulted in the general user having access to a multitude of computing devices (PCs, Laptops, PDAs and cell phones). And with the increase in computing and storage capabilities of small hand-held devices, people have started using them for internet and m...

Social Mobility - Education

be one of the main barriers which stop people moving out of poverty. Yet studies indicate that poorer children are still failing to achieve their educational potential. How should these continuing inequalities be addressed? Policies that focus on early years, greater ‘school readiness’ and support for parents are clearly important but research also points to the multiple structural problems tha...

Social Mobility in Europe

Social mobility and fertility

Intraand inter-generational social mobility have in the past played an important role in attempts to explain fertility behaviour, and continue to do so today. The opinions expressed by social scientists in the first part of the 20th century are renewed and confirmed. More specifically: (1) intra-generational social mobility has been reinforced by the personal well-being aspirations and job care...

Education and social mobility

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