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WORKING-CLASS candidates are being “systematically locked out” of jobs in top legal and accountancy companies thanks to “poshness tests,” an official report has found.
Alan Milburn, chairman of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, accused elitist bosses of discriminating against candidates by grilling them during interviews and handpicking employees based on education, accents and parents’ wealth.
A study of 13 elite law, accountancy and financial firms carried out for the commission found that 70 per cent of job offers last year went to graduates with private or grammar school education.
Afghan women living under the Taliban are navigating a system that makes their public existence conditional on male approval, writes SHUKRIA RAHIMI
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
NICOLA SARAH HAWKINS explains how an under-regulated introduction of AI into education is already exacerbating inequalities