{"id":2454,"date":"2016-02-26T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:59","slug":"privately-educated-continue-to-dominate-the-professions-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/02\/26\/privately-educated-continue-to-dominate-the-professions-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Privately educated continue to dominate the professions\u2019 in the UK&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">&#8230;according to the latest Sutton Trust report <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suttontrust.com\/researcharchive\/leading-people-2016\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Leading People 2016<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">.\u00a0 It quotes the figures that while only 7% of the UK population are privately educated\u00a0 71% of barristers have been to private school, 51% of journalists and 50% of the cabinet.\u00a0 Full methodology and data are provided in the report. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suttontrust.com\/researcharchive\/the-educational-backgrounds-of-the-nations-leading-people\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">See earlier reports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/social-mobility-and-child-poverty-commission\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission <\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0monitors and suggest ways for improving social mobility in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;according to the latest Sutton Trust report Leading People 2016.\u00a0 It quotes the figures that while only 7% of the UK population are privately educated\u00a0 71% of barristers have been to private school, 51% of journalists and 50% of the cabinet.\u00a0 Full methodology and data are provided in the report. See earlier reports. The Social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,9],"tags":[236,65,299,93],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-management","category-labour-market-studies","tag-education","tag-labour-market","tag-private-schools","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}