{"id":14013,"date":"2016-09-11T21:08:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T20:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=14013"},"modified":"2016-09-11T21:12:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T20:12:17","slug":"the-social-mobility-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/the-social-mobility-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Mobility Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Mobility Foundation support high achieving students from low-income backgrounds into top universities and professions. Support is free of charge and tailored to one of 11 career sectors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accountacy<\/li>\n<li>Architecture<\/li>\n<li>Banking and Finance<\/li>\n<li>Biology and Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>Business<\/li>\n<li>Engineering and Physics<\/li>\n<li>Law<\/li>\n<li>Media and Communications<\/li>\n<li>Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Politics<\/li>\n<li>Technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students on the programme receive mentoring, work placements, skills sessions, university application support and support into employment.<\/p>\n<p>Students who wish to apply must meet the eligibility criteria set out below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently in S5<\/li>\n<li>Achieved 5 A\/B grades at National 5 (or 4 A\/B grades if National 5 pass rate is below 50%)<\/li>\n<li>Predicted ABBB grades at Higher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Background Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eligible for Free School Meals any time since S1<\/li>\n<li>Or first generation of family to go to university and undertook their National 5s at a school where 20% or more students are on Free School Meals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information or to discuss this opportunity further, see Mr Carroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Mobility Foundation support high achieving students from low-income backgrounds into top universities and professions. Support is free of charge and tailored to one of 11 career sectors: Accountacy Architecture Banking<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/the-social-mobility-foundation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14014,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14013\/revisions\/14014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}