The new chair of the UK Government’s independent Social Mobility Commission (SMC), headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh, will call for working-class children to focus on making “smaller steps” in life rather than trying to get into the country’s best universities.
In her first speech as chair headmistress Birbalsingh is expected to promote a “broader view of social mobility, for a wider range of people, who want to improve their lives, sometimes in smaller steps.”
