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The BBC’s elitism problem
Auntie’s offices are still packed to the rafters with private school-educated appointees, says STEPHEN ARNELL
BBC Broadcasting House in London, January 21, 2020

DATA taken from Independent Schools Council’s 2023 census records 554,316 pupils currently attending private schools in the UK, around 5.9 per cent of all school attendees in the country.

Privately educated BBC staff now occupy at least a third of Auntie’s highest-paid posts, including ex-Tory council candidate director-general Tim Davie and chief content officer Charlotte Moore.

Davie attended Croydon’s elite Whitgift School, while Moore boarded at Grade II listed Wycombe Abbey, an independent girls’ boarding school in Buckinghamshire.

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