Rushanara is the Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow. She was the Young Foundation’s first Associate Director of Research, establishing our research and action research programmes focuses on contemporary life and changing needs in urban and rural communities, drawing on direct observation and ethnography. Her work on neighbourhoods paved the way for the Young… Read more »
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We can all help bridge the chasm to social mobility (The Evening Standard- Jenni Russell)
The shocking accounts in this paper over the past week, detailing the lonely and hopeless struggle that so many young Londoners are going through in their attempts to find work, have shown what a miserable confidence trick has been played on them by governments and the education system over the past 15 years. One young… Read more »
Character Counts
Character counts in shaping lives for the better – so what can or should public services do about this? Character matters. That is the blunt message revealed by James Heckman’s work. The ability to be open to new ideas and to meeting new people, the willingness to express yourself, the degree of conscientiousness with which… Read more »
Occupy London Tour Shows Bankers Profiting Amid Poverty (Bloomberg News – Simon Clark)
Some people on both sides of the railway tracks are trying to break down the barriers that contribute to inequality. Rushanara Ali, a Labour member of Parliament from Tower Hamlets, helped start Fastlaners, a two-week finishing school to prepare university graduates for jobs in Canary Wharf and elsewhere. It provided training in teamwork, office etiquette,… Read more »