Where you were educated from age 11 has bearing on career success

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Over half of today's leading figures across five different sectors were educated at independent school, even though these account for just 7 per cent of the school-age population.

The Sutton Trust news is here - it makes interesting reading

llaregrub may be right. I thnk one of the best things I've bought in educating my 5 privately and indeed what my siblings and I got from private schools was high expectations. My ex husband felt at his state grammar not many even went to university never mind Oxbridge and you do have some in the public sector like some people on this thread saying going after successful well paid careers isn't a good aim so perhaps you have a load of left wing working class teachers in state schools telling children not to apply to Oxbridge because there won't be people like them there and that going off to be a banker or management consultant or whatever is a sell out to capitalism.

If the careers at school put forward to you are call centre or check out girl you might well go down that route. If everyone at your independent school is off to good universities you may be more lkely to follow that route. What the Sutton Trust is worried about is we hav LESS equality since we lost the grammar schools so it is worse than the 1960s now. The gap and gulf is bigger. One good thing Labour could do is give every parent a £5k a year voucher to use at any school they like, private or state for a start. Then they could send the top 10% by IQ of every state school to free places at the most academic private school.