…women appointed to boards at FTSE 100 companies, for example. The Coalition Government set up a Social Mobility Business Compact to encourage employers to be more open to people from…
Inquiry to Investigate How Best to Improve Access to Leading Professions
…medicine, journalism and politics, it was announced today. The announcement comes after the Sutton Trust published Leading People 2016, a report showing that the top of the UK’s leading professions…
How private schools ‘give pupils skills to succeed’
Eleanor Harding quoted our Leading People research in a Daily Mail news story. High-flying professions are dominated by people who went to public schools because they provide the ‘soft skills’…
New study exposes ‘class ceiling’ that deters less privileged actors
Vanessa Thorpe quoted Sutton Trust research in an Observer news story on elitism in the arts. A major academic study released to the Observer this weekend reveals the extent to…
Rosamund Irwin: Choice between private and state schools is getting more blurred
…translates into just one in three senior doctors, a quarter of the senior judiciary and less than half of top news journalists. Access to the elite jobs, it argued, has…
Owen Jones: Our private school elite’s dominance isn’t just unfair. It damages us all
…repeated studies: that from politics to the media (yes, this newspaper included) to high court judges to film and theatre, the privately educated – 7% of the population – reign…