Barriers to Top jobs for working class students

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quasimodo
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Barriers to Top jobs for working class students

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Elite firms according to this research discriminate against working class students and look for "poshness".

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Re: Barriers to Top jobs for working class students

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"This can be mainly attributed to recruitment methods which targets the Russell Group of 24 highly selective UK universities."

I'm not sure this is always discussed fully when university courses are being selected. It certainly doesn't feature enough in some of the very dubious "league tables" of universities that get published.

In terms of Magic Circle, Big 4 etc, I'm not sure how many of them even get round all 24 RG universities. I thought Freshfields just looked at 14 universities.
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