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I don't think people care what school you went to, but the fact remains that the UK has one of the lowest rates of social mobility in Europe.
by gadders 2y ago
I don't think people care what school you went to, but the fact remains that the UK has one of the lowest rates of social mobility in Europe.
- dukeyukey 2y agoI don't think that's actually a fact. I don't know what figures you're using, but eyeballing the Global Social Mobility Index puts the UK as pretty middling in Europe. Less mobile than France or Germany, more so than Italy, Spain, or Poland.
- gadders 2y agoIt's below average, and lower than all of Scandinavia, Austria etc. Yes, it beats Southern Europe and ex-communist countries. My source was the Sutton Trust and Oxera.
- jamespo 2y agowell, that's not one of the lowest really is it
- gadders 2y ago"One of"
- dukeyukey 2y agoIf your point is the UK is just about in the lowest 50% of European countries by social mobility (keeping in mind Europe is pretty good on a global scale for social mobility), it's basically a non-point altogether. If the UK were at the end of the scale it might, but it's not, so it doesn't.
- gramie 2y agoI think that if you look at the people in positions of control in political and economic sectors (and mass media, which is a key element), the vast majority came from just a few schools.