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Nine elite schools provide path to power

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A group of only nine public schools are still producing a large share of the country’s most powerful people, with their former pupils 94 times more likely to reach the top than anyone else.

Analysis of the past 125 years of Who’s Who, which lists the most prominent politicians, lawyers, business leaders and civil servants in the UK, found that one in eight entrants in recent editions comes from one of the nine schools. This compares with one in five in the 1892 edition.

The group, known as Clarendon Schools, are Charterhouse, Eton, Harrow, Merchant Taylors’, Rugby, Shrewsbury, St Paul’s, Westminster and Winchester.................


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Yeah, but they're all massive t*****s though, aren't they? :lol:
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piggys wrote:Yeah, but they're all massive t*****s though, aren't they? :lol:
I couldn't possibly comment :wink:
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piggys wrote:Yeah, but they're all massive t*****s though, aren't they? :lol:
:lol:

How utterly depressing. And as good a reason as any to avoid sending a child to any of those establishments if that is how they turn out.
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Any private coaches/car share from Aylesbury to Winchester?
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...wanders off to investigate this new market opportunity.... :lol:
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anotherdad wrote:Any private coaches/car share from Aylesbury to Winchester?
Now, now anotherdad...we are talking about "elite" schools here...I think you meant:

any private limousines/helicopters share from Aylesbury to Winchester

didn't you?!
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Are bursaries available to families who don't have their own helicopter?
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Don't be ridiculous surferfish. You'll lower the tone....who wants the proletariat sniffing round the coat-tails of the Bullingdon Boys? :lol:
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Re: Nine elite schools provide path to power

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I am getting a flashback to the 'young ones' episode where Scumbag College plays the Footlight College in University Challenge...... :D :D :D :D :D
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