The Latest Breaking News from the Sutton Trust

The British media has a class problem, according to recent research by The Sutton Trust. In short, the privately educated are over-represented in the creative industries, especially in film and television. The trust’s report, A Class Act (2024), demonstrates that this area of British culture is disproportionately produced by the…

East Ham has been ranked as the top constituency for opportunity, followed by Stratford and Bow and Brent West

Medical schools should make more ambitious use of contextual offers to widen access, a charity has urged.

UK charity calls for positions of four weeks or longer to be banned to help close social mobility gap

The Sutton Trust also said employers continue to underpay interns and give opportunities to family and friends rather than advertising them.

Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-class

Research found that Bafta nominated actors are five times more likely to have attended a fee-paying school than the average person.

After the 2024 election, the British parliament looks very different, with a large Labour majority for the first time in more than a decade. While we don’t yet have a full analysis of the socioeconomic background of the new crop of MPs, the Sutton Trust calculated that 23% were privately…

Jonathan Noakes also suggests training teachers to encourage discussion, as government focuses on oracy