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Evening Standard
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Rhiannon Curry

Small group of universities control most of Britain’s top jobs, Euan Blair says

Britain’s top jobs - and who gets them - are controlled by a small number of universities, stifling diversity in the workplace, according to Euan Blair, chief executive of apprenticeship company Multiverse.

Speaking at the Evening Standard’s SME XPO event in London on Wednesday, Blair, the son of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, said degrees had been used as a “filtering mechanism” at the expense of hiring the best people.

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