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British TV’s Working-Class Problem: Nearly A Quarter Of Top Execs Went To Private School, Report Finds
An Edinburgh report into working classes in TV has found a quarter of top execs went to private school.
The figure is triple that of the roughly 7.5% of people in the country who went to a fee-paying school and is a stark reminder of the inequalities in British TV, a traditionally middle- class field. At the time, research had found just 8% of people working in television were from a working-class background, which was a 12-year low despite multiple recent interventions to try and improve the situation. The report’s compilers asked for data about the education background of senior level staff while speaking with experts and academics for anecdotal and evidence-based insight.
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