🚨 Those from upper-middle-class backgrounds, and the privately-educated, are significantly overrepresented in the creative professions in the UK.
Our new research uncovers stark inequalities in access to careers in the creative industries, including television, film, and music 🧵
Our new research uncovers stark inequalities in access to careers in the creative industries, including television, film, and music 🧵
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We found that 1 in 3 BAFTA-nominated actors were educated privately.
43% of top classical musicians were privately educated.
This compares to 8% of pop stars, an area that better reflects the education background of the UK population as a whole.
But access to creative degrees in subjects such as Music and Art is skewed towards those from upper-middle-class backgrounds, especially at the most prestigious institutions.
At four universities – Oxford, Cambridge, King’s College London and Bath – more than half of students who are on creative courses come from upper-middle-class backgrounds.
Over half of those studying creative subjects at the Royal Academy of Music (60%) and the Royal College of Music (56%) were educated privately.
It also underscores the need for equal access to higher education for all young people.
Action is needed ⬇️
https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/a-class-act/
We’ve lost so much of what made the UK a cultural force
What once was thriving and vital, seems reduced to an exclusive clique of vacuous posh nepo-babies telling each other how great they are …