…The Sutton Trust has previously published research on admissions to comprehensive schools highlighting the social selectivity of some comprehensives and grammar schools. See Selective Comprehensives and Poor Grammar. Our Parent…
Ofsted chief criticises independent schools’ lack of help for state schools
…academy.” Speaking at a conference on social mobility on Wednesday, Wilshaw added: “I think they should lose their tax subsidies and the reliefs they get from the Charity Commission unless…
Privately educated ‘still dominate professions’
BBC News covered our report on Leading People 2016 Leading British actors are more than twice as likely as stars in the music industry to have attended fee-paying schools, the…
How private school pupils dominate the UK arts scene
…study. Researchers from the Sutton Trust found that around 42 per cent of British Bafta winners went to an independent school, as well as 19 per cent of winners at…
Fraction of top doctors educated at state school
Greg Hurst wrote a front page report for The Times on our Leading People 2016 report Only a sixth of senior doctors and one in ten leading barristers were educated…
TOP BAFTA WINNERS TWICE AS LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN TO PRIVATE SCHOOL AS BRIT WINNERS
…inaccessible to those from less advantaged backgrounds. More companies should sign up to the Government’s Social Mobility Business Compact, a commitment to ensure recruitment practices eliminate barriers to social mobility….