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Privileged and powerful: how the privately educated dominate elite roles in the UK - The Sutton Trust Unpacking the findings from our major research into Britain's most powerful figures.

💬 "The importance of making powerful positions in society more accessible to those from different backgrounds and areas of the country has never been more apparent."

@ericaholtwhite.bsky.social unpacks our new research on Britain's most influential people 👇

💬 “In 2025 you can still buy advantage, massively increasing your chance of getting into the most powerful roles in the country.” @nickharrison73.bsky.social

Our new research, Elitist Britain, dives deeper into the pathways of the elite, from school to university ⤵️

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...

Elitist Britain 2025 is out! It has been a huge effort across our team to gather data for 1000s of individuals across politcs, sport, the media and more. It was great to write some thoughts to accompany today's launch: www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion... #SocialMobility #Elites #Politics #Media

🚨 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

🚨 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 ⤵️🧵

🤔 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! 👀

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🚨 Online workshop 🚨

Where you can afford to live shouldn’t dictate the quality of education you can access.

On 18th Sept, we're hosting an online workshop where you can learn about how your school could introduce more inclusive admissions policies ⬇️

🚨 4% of players in the England Women's Euro 2025 squad went to a private school.

Ahead of the Women's Euros semi-final tonight, our analysis finds that the Lionesses backgrounds better reflect the wider population than the England Men's team and Team GB medallists ⬇️⚽️

School case study request 🏫🖥️ #edusky

Is your school doing great things on AI? Do you have a whole school strategy for the tech? Have you been thinking about how best to ensure AI is accessible for lower income students in your school? If so please get in touch!

An annual 2% wealth tax on assets over £10m could raise £6.1bn from the top 20 billionaires on the Sunday Times Rich List alone. That’s enough to fully reverse cuts to winter fuel payments *and* PIP disability benefits 🤯

Opportunity Index Interactive Map - The Sutton Trust Our interactive map allows you to explore access to opportunity for disadvantaged young people in different constituencies across England.

📣 Our latest research looked closely at the differences in opportunities available to less advantaged young people, depending on when they're from.

With our new interactive map, you can browse the data and see how each constituency ranks for opportunity 📍

London dominates England’s social mobility league with top 20 places Sutton Trust’s ‘opportunity index’ measured six factors including children on free school meals passing GCSEs in maths and English

💬"The research shows the dramatic differences in children’s prospects, depending on where in England they happen to be born."

Our new research finds stark inequalities in access to opportunity in different areas of the country.

Our data in @theguardian.com ⤵️

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“We need Labour to step up.”

@drjogrady.bsky.social calling out to James Murray MP on BBC Question Time tonight.

Universities are in crisis. Cuts are everywhere.

Still no plan from Labour.

Join us Saturday to #ProtectEducationNow

The importance of ‘personal’ in personal tutoring One in ten students at the University of Bristol say that they do not have a good relationship with their personal tutor. That is a lot of missed opportunities for connecting with students, an…

On the importance of ‘personal’ in personal tutoring. In this 👇 post for the BILT blog I look at why relationships are so important in personal tutoring (and #HigherEducation more generally!) #RelationalPedagogy #PersonalTutoring #AcademicAdvising
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Really looking forward to this talk at @radicalanthro.bsky.social where I’ll argue that the evolution of menopause is crucial to an understanding of the evolution of modern humans and language. @bristolantharch.bsky.social