“Almost a quarter of the students at our research-intensive universities come from the 7% of the population who go to private school” —Theresa May
The right education for everyone: Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at Derby College as she launches a review of post-18 education and funding (2018)
www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-the-right-education-for-everyone
“Those from more advantaged backgrounds are also more likely to enter higher prestige institutions. This trend was captured by prime minister Theresa May when she acknowledged that ‘almost a quarter of the students at our research-intensive universities come from the 7 per cent of the population who go to private school’. By contrast, as Diane Reay et al. (2009) pointed out, working-class students, for the most part, end up in universities seen to be ‘second class’ both by themselves and others. While a higher prestige university is no guarantee of superior teaching, society’s top jobs do tend to get hoovered up by alumni of elite universities, as reports from the Sutton Trust regularly note.”--Steven Jones
Quoted from Universities Under Fire 🔥 Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education by Steven Jones dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96107-7
Via Elitist Britain (2019) The educational backgrounds of Britain’s leading people www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Elitist-Britain-2019-Summary-Report.pdf
Official portrait of Baroness May of Maidenhead by Roger Harris via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/EwFx
“Almost a quarter of the students at our research-intensive universities come from the 7% of the population who go to private school” —Theresa May
The right education for everyone: Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at Derby College as she launches a review of post-18 education and funding (2018)
www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-the-right-education-for-everyone
“Those from more advantaged backgrounds are also more likely to enter higher prestige institutions. This trend was captured by prime minister Theresa May when she acknowledged that ‘almost a quarter of the students at our research-intensive universities come from the 7 per cent of the population who go to private school’. By contrast, as Diane Reay et al. (2009) pointed out, working-class students, for the most part, end up in universities seen to be ‘second class’ both by themselves and others. While a higher prestige university is no guarantee of superior teaching, society’s top jobs do tend to get hoovered up by alumni of elite universities, as reports from the Sutton Trust regularly note.”--Steven Jones
Quoted from Universities Under Fire 🔥 Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education by Steven Jones dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96107-7
Via Elitist Britain (2019) The educational backgrounds of Britain’s leading people www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Elitist-Britain-2019-Summary-Report.pdf
Official portrait of Baroness May of Maidenhead by Roger Harris via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/EwFx