Post-class
21Jun10
1959:
Over 70% of Cabinet and other Ministers went to Oxbridge; over 50% went to one of six public schools, over 30% having attended Eton alone. [Lupton & Wilson, 1959]
2010:
Approx. 70% of Cabinet Ministers and 50% of Ministers went to Oxbridge; over 60% of Cabinet and other Ministers went to public school; 62% of MPs went to leading universities. With the exception of Gordon Brown, every Prime Minister since 1936 who went to university graduated from Oxford (including Cameron). [Sutton Trust, 2010]
These figures become especially significant when one considers that only 9% of Oxbridge students are working class (compared to, say, 33% of Anglia Ruskin students).
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Tags: "Death of Class", class, Education, inequality, Oxbridge, university
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hey so every elected prime minister has been from Oxford since 1936?
Maybe that’s what the electorate want, a well educated person to be a head of state, as the electorate know that it is not necessarily someone from the same background who best represents their interests.
every ELECTED Prime Minister since 1936 who went to university graduated from Oxford (including Cameron).
FTFY.
Rob:
every ELECTED Prime Minister since 1936 is entirely fictional.
FTFY.
Those people do not represent our intrests. They represent the wealthy class. Try to get it into your brain.