Oxbridge influence over key public roles laid bare

The research, carried out by 바카라사이트 Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, analysed 바카라사이트 educational backgrounds of more than 4,000 people in positions of power.

It found that those educated at independent schools and Oxbridge were severely overrepresented in this group.

Among 바카라사이트 most dramatic findings: 71 per cent of senior judges, 62 per cent of senior armed forces officers, 55 per cent of civil service permanent secretaries, and 53 per cent of senior diplomats had attended independent schools ¨C compared with 7 per cent of 바카라사이트 UK population as a whole.

The Commission ¨C formed as part of 바카라사이트 Child Poverty Act of 2010 to improve social mobility ¨C also found that 75 per cent of senior judges, 59 per cent of 바카라사이트 Cabinet and 50 per cent of diplomats had attended Oxbridge. Less than one per cent of 바카라사이트 general public go to 바카라사이트 universities of Oxford or Cambridge.

Chair of 바카라사이트 commission, former Labour Cabinet minister Alan Milburn, said 바카라사이트 findings showed that efforts by successive governments to improve 바카라사이트 professional prospects of 바카라사이트 poor had failed. ¡°The institutions that matter appear to be a cosy club. It is hard to avoid 바카라사이트 conclusion that Britain is deeply elitist,¡± he said.

Of 바카라사이트 FTSE 350 chief executives educated in Britain, 41 per cent went to private school. Of those in 바카라사이트 Sunday Times Rich List 60 per cent were educated privately, whereas over a quarter of those on 바카라사이트 Rich List did not attend university.

The study also found that 바카라사이트 judiciary is 바카라사이트 professional group whose members benefitted from 바카라사이트 most advantaged educational backgrounds, with 14 per cent of judges having attended one of five elite independent schools: Eton, Westminster and St Paul¡¯s Boys¡¯ School among 바카라사이트m.