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Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds

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

At four universities – Oxford, Cambridge, King’s College London and Bath – more than half of students on creative courses come from the most elite upper middle-class backgrounds. The trust, which champions social mobility from birth to the workplace, added that the wider value of creative degrees should be taken into account when making funding and policy decisions for the higher education sector. Harrison said Britain’s creative sector was admired around the world, but no young person “should be held back from reaching their full potential, or from pursuing their interests and dream career, due to their socioeconomic background”.

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