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‘Privately educated tighten their grip on Britain’s most powerful roles’ - Sutton Trust, Elitist Britain 2025
https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/elitist-britain-2025/
Sad to see little has changed since the #SuttonTrust's first Elitist Britain report back in 2019; let alone since 2021 when A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works In Elitist Britain was published:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
‘The most powerful and influential people in the UK remain 5 times more likely to have attended a fee-paying school than the general population. Members of this leadership elite are also twice as likely to go to #university over five times more likely to have gone to a #RussellGroup university and 21 times more likely to have gone to #Oxford or #Cambridge than the general population. Just 7% of the general population attends #privateschools
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"In 2025 you can still buy advantage, massively increasing your chance of getting into the most powerful roles in the UK. This is grossly unfair & a waste of talent on a huge scale. If we want a fairer, stronger economy, employers & policymakers must take responsibility for levelling the playing field, where privilege is no longer a passport to power."
🗞️CarlCulliane #SuttonTrust -
Some comprehensive schools ‘more socially selective than grammars’ | Education | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/11/some-comprehensive-schools-more-socially-selective-than-grammars#GrammarSchools
#ComprehensiveSchools
#SocialSelection
#SuttonTrust
#FreeSchoolMeals
#FSM
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The latest data from the #SuttonTrust suggest that 'widening participation' at the top #universities has almost no impact over the last 25 years... provided you equate 'top' universities with the #RussellGroup which is not a perfect fit.
It would be better to use the THES ranking to identify top universities as some of the top 20, not in the RG are actually do a pretty god job - my own erstwhile institution, Lancaster U, for instance does pretty well on this & is top 10 but not in the RG!