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20 May 2020 – Assessing apprenticeships on their social mobility potential
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Assessing apprenticeships on their social mobility potential
20 May 2020 | 09:00 – 13:00 | Online conference
Lindsay Turner Trammell, Head of Policy and Innovation at the Social Mobility Commission (SMC) will be one of the keynote speakers during a morning-long conference held by the Westminster Employment Forum on 20 May. Lindsay will be unveiling new research the SMC has commissioned from London Economics examining how apprenticeships have helped improve social mobility. It will be an early and exclusive opportunity to take a look at this seminal research, learn how the system is working and what employers, and the Government, can do to improve it.
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