{"id":144705,"date":"2025-09-18T04:22:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144705\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:22:21","slug":"uk-class-ceiling-private-school-still-way-to-elite-top-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144705\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Class Ceiling: Private School Still Way to Elite, Top Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Despite increasing corporate efforts to hire from more diverse backgrounds, private school alumni remain dominant among the most powerful positions in British society, according to a sprawling new report on social mobility in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">New data from social mobility charity the Sutton Trust show that elite schooling remains the surest route to the top of British society, a reflection that corporate efforts to improve socioeconomic mobility at companies have only made little headway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite increasing corporate efforts to hire from more diverse backgrounds, private school alumni remain dominant among the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18537,4229,5030,27422,32860,59,80,57,58,35278,1371,50,229,1208,66805,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-144705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-bt-group-plc","tag-economics","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-equality","tag-ftse-100-index","tag-gb","tag-government","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-inclusion","tag-jobs","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-startups","tag-sutton-trust-the","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}