Informed by new research from the Bridge Group, a new taskforce has been set up to boost socio-economic diversity in UK financial and professional services sectors.
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The Top 75 UK employers in 2020 who have taken the most action on social mobility in the workplace are announced.
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There is a severe lack of robust evidence on how to improve the retention and attainment of students from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds in higher education, according to TASO’s new report out today.
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New report exposes inequalities in the arts that have been exacerbated during CV-19, and calls for urgent, practical action.
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Bridge Group report finds inequalities in progression to partner in law relating to gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background.
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Twelve leading real estate firms have collaborated with the Bridge Group to understand how socio-economic background affects access to, and success in, the industry. The report shows that limited progress on social mobility is being made and makes a series of recommendations to drive action across the sector.
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Bridge Group report on the new Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE) finds that the assessment design is fair and that the qualification could help to improve diversity in the legal sector.
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The Bridge Group have published a report looking at UCAS data for a group of selective law schools in England, as well as the admissions criteria and processes employed by a wider group of the top UK law schools.
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Over the last four years, the Bridge Group has been working to evaluate the impact of Access Accountancy work experience and provide analysis of the diversity of applications and hires and membership of professional bodies. The most recent report, considering data from 2017-18, included quantitative data analysis of over 4.8 million coded data-points across eighteen firms and professional bodies and interviews across eight firms.
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