Professions 'reserved for rich' (Former GB minister Milburn tells BBC)

[Heidi]

GB isn't the only place where this is happening.
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Professions 'reserved for rich'
Top professions such as medicine and law are increasingly being closed off to all but the most affluent families, a report into social mobility will say.

Former minister Alan Milburn is to report to the prime minister on how to widen access to high-status jobs.

He says young people in England should have access to much better careers advice to boost their ambitions.

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He said the professions had a "closed shop mentality" and "have become more and not less exclusive over time".

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[LeftishBrit]

1. The governnment has made it increasingly more difficult for people who are not well-off to afford

long-term training.

There has always been snobbery and 'closed-shop mentality' in the professions; but I don't think this is the whole story; sounds like the government getting itself off the hook.

[Wednesdays]

2. K&R

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