For Social Entrepreneurs innovating in housing, The Young Foundation’s Housing Innovation Bootcamp provides accelerated impact through teaching best practice, offering expert advice and professional networking. Do you want to improve access to housing? Do you want help to develop an idea that reduces housing inequality?Do you have:• A great idea to make housing fairer? •... Find out more
To coincide with the University of Nottingham’s debate about the state of meritocracy in contemporary Britain (24 October 2018), CEO Helen Goulden share her thoughts and asks what has merit?
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On Thursday, 10th January 2019, join us for a talk with Joe Hayman about his new book 'British Journey'.
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In moving toward the meritocratic ideal, we have imagined that we have retired the old encrustations of inherited hierarchies. As the sociologist Michael Young knew, that’s not the real story.
- writes Kwame Anthony Appiah in 'The Red Baron' for The New York Review of Books.
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To coincide with the University of Nottingham's debate about the state of meritocracy in contemporary Britain (24 October 2018), we're sharing this piece by Toby Young where he explores the question: What lies beyond the meritocracy?
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Here in Bethnal Green, generations of researchers and innovators have been reflecting on the idea of community since Michael Young moved here to undertake the research that would become the foundations of Family and Kinship in East London.
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We’re pleased to welcome eight new initiatives to the Young Academy’s accelerator programme for early-stage social ventures tackling educational inequalities. Through the Accelerator, participants will attend intensive workshops and receive one-to-one support from social impact experts, volunteer advisors and education sector leaders. Our goal is to create a space for ideas and projects to be... Find out more
On 10th January 2019 we're hosting an evening with @JoeHayman to talk about his latest book, 'British Journey' and… https://t.co/XhRLAwalqG
