7% of the Britsih population is privately educated, but they get 60% of the TOP jobs.

Its due to the fact that if you go to private schools like Rugby and Eaton you get unconditional offers to Oxford and Cambridge due to their historic relationship whether or not you fail your A levels. And as we all know if you go to Oxford or Cambridge you get the best jobs hence why the rich get the TOP jobs.

I'm gob-smacked really. Just read a disgusting stat, that states that, 7% of people our privately educated in this country, but they make up 60% of the top jobs in this county ranging from, financial services, The law basically high end jobs.

Now I know the snobs will just tell me that they our well educated and deserve all they get, well sir in my opinion it shows just how much of a unfair divide exists between the upper classes and the ordinary folk.

I have no respect for the silver spooned that rub their privilege in peoples faces. I have all respect for the self made but not snobs. Anyway this stat highlights the considerable troubles that hurt society

Jobs for the boyz.

Nice generalisations.

There are no more or less *******s who go to Private school than who go to State school. To claim one type of asshat (private school asshat) is worse than a (state school) asshat or vice versa is pointless. The simple fact remains is, there are asshats, and they are not exclusive or even related to the schools they come from.

You know that is rubbish right? what a moron.

Hasn't anyone thought that there may be a genetic influence here?

If people are rich, chances are it is because they are very clever. If not clever, then have some talent, like sport or music. Even if you don't agree that these people should be paid highly, the people who consume their services do, and it would be horrendous for the public sector to meddle in private sector wages (although this is another debate altogether).

Of all the very rich people in the world, not many don't deserve it. This is often passed down through their genes to their children and grandchildren, meaning they are also very intelligent people. Going to a private school simply enhances this natural intelligence, allowing them to use it to the full potential. Even if they didn't get the best education (except maybe if they were in one of the worst schools in the country), many of them would probably still make it into one of these top jobs. Surely it is better to try to move the standard of the worst off upwards rather than prevent those at the top from getting too far ahead of the others?

I don't understand why people are so against the private schools. People may see this as the 1% screwing everyone over again by getting a better education than us, but think of it in this way. These are the people who contribute by far the most to tax revenue, which pay for schools, hospitals, benefits and welfare etc. However, if they are privately educated and go to a private doctor, they use far far less in government resources than the average person, and the difference is even more astonishing when you consider how much more they provide to the public purse than the average person.

I know two people who were 'connected', who got unconditionals from Oxbridge, one got like 3 E/D's.

At the risk of negs - sometimes it's not what you know, it's who you know.

At the risk of negs - sometimes it's not what you know, it's who you know.

So the people with the best education who are groomed for a life in certain industries do well in those industries?

Well knock me down and call me a goose.

Yeah, but there's a load of high handed, patronising ****ers at private schools who go on to form establishment, and they have no real experience of anyone but their own. Personally I wouldn't want to see my kids become that, so narrow, even if I had the money for it. I just can't think in establishment terms.

I think it's an outrage that well-educated people should get good jobs. Send them to the salt mines, I say! Prepare for the illiteratorcracy!

I don't know about you. But I would rather go to a normal school and not be mentally scarred for life by the competitive nature garnered in these private schools.

It's no wonder they go far, they are bred to be psychopaths from the first day of school

you dont have to be rich to go to a private school