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There are almost no Oxford and Cambridge graduates in the management of the 100 largest UK companies

Fewer and fewer of those who graduated from Oxford or Cambridge universities remain on the boards of directors of companies included in the FTSE 100 index. As a study by New Street Consulting Group, which the newspaper publishes The Times, now only 10% of representatives of the management of the largest companies in the UK are Oxbridge graduates. Ten years ago, this figure was 23%.

Non-Oxbridge CEOs include Nigel Wilson, head of insurance and investment firm Legal & General, who graduated from the University of Essex, Alison Britten, head of the Whitbread restaurant and hospitality business, who graduated from Stirling University, and Amanda Blank, head of Aviva, a major insurance company. who studied modern history at the University of Liverpool. Oxford alumni include GlaxoSmithKline CEO Emma Walmsley, Rio Tinto Chairman Simon Thompson, Rolls-Royce Chairman Ian Davis.

According to the New Street Consulting Group, 80% of company executives are now graduates from universities that are not included in the world’s top 30 universities. Slightly more than half of directors do not have an MBA or a diploma in accounting and auditing, whereas before, it was difficult to get into the board of directors without this. Of those universities that are not in the top 30, representatives of the management of British companies more often graduated from the University of Manchester (23 directors), the Universities of Sheffield and Bristol (11 directors each).

Alena Miklashevskaya

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