The Economist: OxBridge Bloc Breaks...

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  1. Orson

    Orson New Member

    "The public schools and Oxbridge no longer dominate the top jobs"
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    "In 1992, we looked at the educational background of the holders of 100 top jobs, and compared them with their predecessors of 20 years earlier (see article from 1992). The results were startling. Between 1972 and 1992, there was virtually no change in the proportion of top-job-holders who had been educated at public school and at Oxford or Cambridge. Ten years on, we have repeated the exercise, and the result is equally interesting, in a different way. There has now been a big drop (see article)—probably the first since the upper classes took up going to school and university—in the proportion of top-job-holders who were educated at the old elite institutions. ***The public schools and Oxbridge are losing their hold on power.***

    http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1477598

    --Orson
     

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