Social Mobility

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at on 17 December 2018.

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Photo of Rupa Huq Rupa Huq Labour, Ealing Central and Acton

The further education sector—famously an engine of social mobility—is now under threat from the insolvency regime that comes in next year. Karen Redhead has turned Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College around, but she would like assurances that the support mechanisms that allowed that will continue next year, so that such colleges do not just disappear down the plughole when the new rules kick in.