Niels Planel, author at Social Europe

Out of their class: quality education for all

Niels Planel

A Harlem schools programme shows how education can counter, rather than reinforce, brute-luck disadvantage.

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Eradicating long-term unemployment

Laurent Grandguillaume and Niels Planel

Social enterprises can offer the long-term unemployed an exit from the vicious circle of inactivity, France is showing.

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