Carl Cullinane

📣 Next week, the UK COVID-19 Inquiry will begin hearings for Module 8, which will examine the impact of the pandemic on children and young people across the UK.

On Wednesday, our former Head of Research and Policy, @beckymontacute.bsky.social, will give evidence to the Inquiry.

That being said, my personal highlight was seeing the Premier League trophy in the home of the champions...

Back from Labour conference now. Some glimmers of hope among the gloom. A lot of great work and thinking being done across the sector. Some encouraging signs from the new DfE ministers. A really welcome return of maintenance grants. Two excellent events run by my @suttontrust.bsky.social colleagues!

This morning at Labour Party Conference, our panel is looking at the attainment gap and asking why disadvantaged pupils are behind their peers.

Chaired by @nickharrison73.bsky.social, we are joined by @sarahsmithlab.bsky.social, @childrenscomm.bsky.social, and @danielkebedeneu.bsky.social

Today we are at the Labour Party Conference to explore findings from the Sutton Trust's latest report, Elitist Britain.

We are joined by @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @peter4bracknell.bsky.social, @lewisgoodall.com, Lord David Evans, and our own @carlcullinane.bsky.social.

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Fantastic news. We've been banging on about how unjust the student finance system is for the ten years since grants were abolished, so this is great to see.

New schools minister @georgiagould.bsky.social very impressive at IPPR event on helping children and young people inside and outside the school gates.

Great session at Labour party conference by @coalitionedcare.bsky.social on the future for early years reform, hosted by @sarahronan.bsky.social

Cricket is the most elitist sport in Britain, with 50-60% of top players attending private school (vs. 7% of the population). Football is representative. Olympians in the middle with "only" 20-30% private school.
Rugby is split men (elitist) vs. women (representative).

@suttontrust.bsky.social

🫨 Did you know 95% of the remaining hereditary peers in the House of Lords went to private school?

Over half went to Eton alone.

52% of all Lords were privately educated. There's a long way to go before the 829 member Upper House is representative of the wider population.

🚨 Data viz on the backgrounds of Britain’s elite 🚨

Our brand-new research offers rich data on the school and university backgrounds of Britain’s most powerful people.

Compare sectors and professions for yourself using our interactive tool 📊

elitistbritain.suttontrust.com/compare

Power structures in this country are still dominated by a small group of people.

1️⃣ The 7% who go to private schools

2️⃣ The roughly 1% who go to Oxford or Cambridge for university

This is especially true for those who attend both private school and Oxbridge 👇

No escaping Nick Gibb

Every day with an 8 month old is like hanging out with the velociraptors in Jurassic Park. What horrifying ability are they going to develop next.

🗣️ "There is an onus on the state to think about how do we compensate for the private tutoring system through the state system."

Our Director of Research and Policy, @carlcullinane.bsky.social, appeared on BBC Radio 2 to speak about tutoring with Jeremy Vine yesterday 📻

🚨 Dedicated microsite on the backgrounds of Britain’s most powerful people 🚨

We published new research on elitism in Britain today.

Visit our microsite to read the report, browse case studies, and use our data viz to directly compare professions for yourself 👇

elitistbritain.suttontrust.com

Are kids at private school 5x as smart as those in the state sector?
Of course not - but they are 5x as likely to end up in the most powerful and influential positions in Britain today. New @suttontrust.bsky.social research - Elitist Britain.

Statistics on the private school background of leading professions

Some fairly shocking stuff in the report this morning!
Explore the full data here: elitistbritain.suttontrust.com

This news just in: we hoped the middle- and upper-class capture of the media would lessen. It’s got worse | Carl Cullinane Since our last survey, we find more columnists, podcasters and executives are from privileged backgrounds. That’s too narrow a segment of society, says Carl Cullinane, director of research and policy ...

Pleased to write about working class access to the media industry in @theguardian.com today. Our Elitist Britain research out today shows that almost half of columnists, commentators and top podcast hosts went to private schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Explore the Elitist Britain data on our (excellent) microsite!

🚨 NEW: Britain’s most powerful people are still 5x more likely to have been privately educated than the general population.

Our brand-new research reveals that jobs in the media, business, charity, creative and public sectors remain dominated by those from private schools ⤵️🧵

Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Guaranteed Income Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Lots of people say this, but not quite sure it's true? eg See www.nber.org/papers/w32711 and other papers on various other outcomes.

🤔 Where do Britain’s most influential people go to school and university? Which professions are the most socially excusive?

Tomorrow, we will publish Elitist Britain 2025, a landmark report updating on our previous research on elitism in 2019.

Keep your eyes peeled! 👀

The ‘impossible situation’ of Progress 8 in white, working-class schools Just seven of the 100 schools with the highest rates of disadvantage and the lowest rates of English as an additional language have a positive P8. With the metric on pause, is it time to rethink it?

Happy to contribute to this great piece on Progress 8 and measuring school performance by @ellencph.bsky.social. We should take this opportunity to bring in a measure that better captures the context a school is achieving in, while not losing sight of high standards: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Today is #GCSEResultsDay!

Here’s what we know about the results as of yet ⤵️ 🧵

Not much change since last year in GCSE results today. Regional gaps wide but unchanged, gap between state and private sector narrowed slightly after an increase last year.
Main trend is grammar schools continuing to pull ahead of both comprehensives and private schools since the pandemic.

📝New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper

Why are students from elite high schools much more likely to go to high ranked university courses than equally qualified students from the state sector? 🤔

w @opmc1.bsky.social @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social & Jo Blanden

econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...