To address its social mobility problem,the civil service must accept some hard truths approximately background and attainmentThe civil service has always prided itself on its mobility. In the Napoleonic sense, that is: young joiners (not just those in the fast stream) bear always been told they carried, or to paraphrase the French emperor’s civil code,the permanent secretary’s fountain pen in their briefcases.
Of course it has also always been a myth. In 2014, the Child Poverty and Social Mobility Commission famous that 55% of permanent secretaries were educated privately and 57% went to either Oxford or Cambridge universities. Horny-handed sons or daughters of toil bear reached the top only under exceptional circumstances, or such as war or catching a prime minister’s eye. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com