‘Privately educated continue to dominate the professions’ in the UK…
…according to the latest Sutton Trust report Leading People 2016. It quotes the figures that while only 7% of the UK population are privately educated 71% of barristers have been to private school, 51% of journalists and 50% of the cabinet. Full methodology and data are provided in the report. See earlier reports. The Social […]
Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: parliamentary report launched
Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill has just published a report with 86 recommendations on improving the clarity of the bill. The website has access to written and oral evidence presented. View the full text of the Bill and associated documents on the Home Office website Also released this week the Intelligence and […]
What does your vice–chancellor earn?
How do pay and perks compare at the UK top universities? Find out in the annual report from UCU union Transparency at the top? This was published as part of its campaign for greater transparency in UK university executive pay. It also includes expenditure on air flights, hotel accommodation and expenses. How does your pay compare? […]
The unhappiest people in the UK are those aged 45-59
According to the latest 3 year survey from the office for National Statistics. Find out more from the website. There there are also maps of levels of happiness for local authority areas. There are also excel data tables at a local level for anxiety, satisfaction and happiness. The BBC has an interesting online test – […]
Racism in British Universities
The UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70% reported sometimes or often being subject to bullying or harassment by their managers. The Runnymede trust has just published a collection of essays on […]
UK/EU renegotiation
Read the full text of David Cameron’s statement to parliament on the UK government website and the proposals sent by the European Council Parliament TV has a recording of the debate and there is a transcript in Hansard. For access to free discussion and news services search for ‘Brexit’ on European Sources online, an online database and […]
Universal credit – does anyone benefit?
IFS has conducted an economic analysis into the impact finding that it ‘will tend to weaken the incentive for single parents to be in work, and to strengthen the incentive for couples to have one person in work (rather than none or two).’ For background see the UK government official website . It includes this […]
Historic photographs: the changing workplace
As part of a new exhibition, the Bank of England Archive has released some of its historic photographs online. Some fascinating examples on the BBC website show the changing workplace. There is also a free Flickr site
Why Ethnic Minorities see immigration differently
As the prime minister announces plans to require Muslim women to learn English, this new report from the Runnymede Trust gives the perspectives of BME Ethnic Minority groups on immigration to the UK. This also considers attitudes towards integration. It is based on qualitative interviews with 7 focus groups involving 65 people.
In which British city do people earn the most?
Find out this and other fascinating facts and figures on the economic and social indicators of Britain’s major cities by consulting the latest Cities outlook 2016 which has just been published by the Centre for Cities. It also has a great associated data tool which enables you to generate and compare your own map. 17 […]
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