swee'pea99
Squire
Have to say my first reaction was surprise that the figure wasn't higher. And in fact, it turns out, it's not that unrepresentative...mm
I am sure things have improved since the tale I heard, but that quote (not criticising you) sounds suspiciously weaselly.
"employees" covers a pretty wide spread of roles within the BBC.
Many rather humble I would suppose.
Which also surprised me. 18%. Who knew?
I'd be equally surprised to hear that that public school proportion remains constant all the way up the greasy pole. I stand to be corrected, but I'd be very surprised if not only the Top Jobs but good jobs in every department display a marked Public School bias. It often ends up being what you know, but it almost always starts with who you know. Particularly at hard core Establishment institutions like the BBC.
And I speak as one who believes passionately in the BBC.
It's not just them anyway. I complained to the editor after 'as equally as' appeared not only in the Guardian but in the Guardian leader. I said, I said "This happened on your watch." She never got back to me. Typical Cheltenham.
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