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Fair access and meritocracy

• 25 June 2012 - The Guardian - Jonathan Wolff
  “Universities could be a significant force in social mobility”
• 8 June 2012 - Law Society Gazette - Mark Stobbs
  “We need to work even harder to make the profession inclusive”
• 30 May 2012 - The Independent - Andrew Woodcock
  “Social mobility is stagnant says Alan Milburn”
• 29 April 2012 - The Guardian - Tracy McVeigh
  “Schooldays rule your destiny long before your first job interview, say MPs”
• 15 April 2012 - The Daily Telegraph - Julie Henry
  “Fines for universities slammed by admissions don”
• 29 March 2012 - Insurance Insight - Francesca Nyman
  “CII urges insurers to sign internship pledge”
• 29 March 2012 – The Guardian – Alex Aldridge
  “Improving social mobility at the bar? Students at the Old Bailey is a start”
• 28 March 2012 - BBC News
  “Peers recommend more diverse judiciary”
• 28 March 2012 - Institute of Education 
  “Initiatives aimed at widening access to universities must start long before 18, study concludes”
• 12 March 2012 - Legal Week - Friederike Heine
  “Forty-two chambers sign up to new Bar social mobility scheme“
• 5 March 2012 - Accountancy Age - William Clarke
  “Professions could do more for social mobility”
• 5 March 2012 - The Lawyer - James Swift
  “Firms tooled up for diversity”
• 1 March 2012 - The Times - Edward Fennell
  “Legal bodies have helped to develop a Social Mobility Toolkit – perhaps it could assess the make-up of the Government?”
• 20 February 2012 - Legal Week - Suzi Ring
  “Freshfields teams up with UCL for £10,000 bursary scheme”
• 20 February 2012 - The Daily Telegraph - Louisa Peacock
  “Lord Davies shakes up Britain’s boardrooms”
• 17 February 2012 - Financial Times - Nick Pearce
  “Britain’s elites must learn how the other half lives”
• 12 January 2012 - The Lawyer - Ruth Green
  “Raft of firms sign up to Nick Clegg’s Social Mobility Business Compact”
• 10 January 2012 - The Guardian - Graeme Wearden
  “Record number of women in UK boardrooms”
• 5 January 2012 - Times Higher Education - Jack Grove
  “Not dead yet: AimHigher’s aims live on” 
• 29 December 2011 - The Guardian - David Skelton
  “Where have all the working class leaders gone?”
• 28 November 2011 - The Lawyer - Laura Manning
  “Legal apprenticeships take on new relevance”
• 17 November 2011 - Manchester Evening News 
  “Accountant says social mobility will bring economic growth”
• 14 November 2011 - The Guardian - Frederika Whitehead
  “Failure to explain tuition fees will create social mobility crisis, say experts”
• 14 November 2011 - The Times - Frances Gibb
  “Give women priority for top law jobs, judge urges”
• 21 October 2011 - The Guardian - Lynsey Hanley
  “Social mobility is not a myth”
• 12 October 2011 - Legal Week - Sofia Lind
  “Nick Clegg: legal profession must ‘do better’ on social mobility”
• 4 October 2011 - BBC News
  “‘Flexible’ work call for women doctors”
• 23 September 2011 – Financial Times – Norma Cohen
  “Social mobility shows drop in the regions”
• 15 September 2011 – Legal Week – David Morley
  “Look beyond the usual suspects and change the face of work experience”
• 9 September 2011 – The Telegraph – Jessica Salter
  “Access all areas – the project helping disadvantaged children into top universities”
• 8 July 2011 – BBC News – Sean Coughlan
  “North-south divide haunts university admissions”
• 13 April 2011 - City AM - Neil Stevenson
  “For those without family connections, professional qualifications are a lifeline” .

Professional standards and ethics

• 14 November 2012 – City AM - Allister Heath
  Scandals have made the UK a dnagerously low-trust society
• 26 March 2012 – The Guardian - Graham Dietz
  “How to rebuild trust in business”
• 2 January 2012 - Daily Telegraph - Christopher Hope
  “Time to end excess in the City, says David Cameron” 
• 19 December 2011 – The Guardian - Patrick Wintour
  “Nick Clegg vows to target widening wealth inequality”
• 6 December 2011 - BBC News 
  “Graduates paying to work for free”
• 5 December 2011 - The Guardian - Andrew Sparrow
  “Nick Clegg vows to get tough on excessive executive pay”
• 22 November 2011 - The Guardian - Jill Treanor and Simon Goodley
  “How boardroom excess is eroding trust in business”
• 18 November 2011 - The Guardian - Shiv Malik
  “HMRC plans crackdown on fashion industry’s unpaid interns”
• 5 November 2011 - The Guardian - Shiv Malik, James Ball, Rajeev Syal
  “The great unpaid: scandal of Britain’s army of interns”
• 2 November 2011 - The Times - Carol Lewis
  “Students fight for jobs – and university year has just started”
• 14 October 2011 - Legal Week - Simon Peterson
  “Partners want more Government promotion of legal profession’s contribution to economy”
• 9 October 2011 - The Observer - Martin Bright
  “No such thing as a free lunch? Tell that to the poor, unpaid intern who cooked it”
• 22 September 2011 – Financial Times – Robert Orr
  “Internships: ordeal or opportunity”
• 8 August 2011 – Evening Standard – Joshi Herrmann
  “Inside the world of London’s 24/7 interns”
• 29 July 2011 – BBC News – Victoria King
  “Ed Miliband urged to end unpaid internships in Labour”
• 1 June 2011 – The Guardian – Aditya Chakrabortty and Ross Perlin
  “The Business Podcast: Interns and internships”
• 10 May 2011 – The Times – Alex Spence
  “Knowledge means money, and Britain should not forget it”
• 7 May 2011 – The Guardian - Andy Beckett
  “Intern Nation by Ross Perlin – review”
• 25 April 2011 – The Times - Libby Purves
  “How to relax about interns: pay them (a little)”
• 23 April 2011 – BBC News
  “Cameron and Clegg differ publicly on internship places”