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East End briefing: universities, equity and aspiration

When: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Where: Online

Speaker: Several speakers, see event information

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Join us for a debate about place, social mobility and the hopes and anxieties of students, employers and universities during National Apprenticeship Week. 



The East End is a culturally iconic place with a diversity of social and faith groups. However, communities in the East End, such as Tower Hamlets, remain some of the most deprived in the country and many people worry the UK’s social contract is broken. At a moment when the government is setting out its opportunity reform agenda, we want to make the aspirations of place central to this debate.

This ‘local to national to local’ event will discuss the final report of Queen Mary’s and the Mile End Institute’s polling into attitudes to social mobility and the professions in the East End, which was conducted with Savanta in November 2024. It will include a discussion of higher education reform across the UK, including the role of public and private institutions, further education, apprenticeships and social partnership.

We hope you can join us online for this event during National Apprenticeship Week.

Speakers will include:

Jennifer Coupland, Chief Executive, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
Juliette Rowsell, Times Higher Education
Lord Tim Clement Jones, Member of the House of Lords
Dr Philippa Lloyd, Vice Principal, Queen Mary University
Dr Elizabeth Simon, The Mile End Institute
Students and apprentices from the London City Institute of Technology

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