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. Wealth and private school remain key to professions. Radical proposals include £5,000 voucher for allRadical proposals to give every 18-year-old a £5,000 voucher to spend as they wish on their training or higher education are proposed in a highly critical report published today into Britain's professional 'closed shop'.The report by an all-party panel chaired by the former cabinet minister Alan Milburn paints a damning portrayal of a country in which family wealth, private education and privileged access to university remain the key to well-paid professions.It says: 'There is a chasm between where we are and where we need to be if Britain is to realise the social benefits of the expected growth in 7m professional jobs in the coming decades.'The report, which also proposes a payment-by-results scheme for schools, accuses the professional classes of a 'closed shop mentality' and 'opportunity hoarding', so making Britain one of the least socially mobile countries in Europe.It finds that

Telegraph View Alan Milburn is right to say that schools offer the best hope of improving social mobility.

Top professions are increasingly closed off to all but the most affluent families, a report into social mobility says.

Ben Mezrich's book 'The Accidental Billionaires' was relatively ambiguous in its treatment of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Aaron Sorkin's screenplay adaptation of the book gives him significantly less of a kid-glove treatment.

An anonymous reader writes 'After months of waiting, the Google Latitude social maps service finally arrived for the iPhone ... but thanks to an Apple rejection of the natively developed app, it's a web app. Says Google on their blog, 'We worked closely with Apple to bring Latitude to the iPhone in a way Apple thought would be best for iPhone users. After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone.' But it gets worse for iPhone users: 'Unfortunately, since there is no mechanism for applications to run in the background on iPhone (which applies to browser-based web apps as well), we're not able to provide continuous background location updates in the same way that we can for Latitude users on Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile.' Latitude has been sprouting new features lately and is an interesting take on social networking, but it looks like Apple is determi

The lead singer of Nine Inch Nails, a pioneer in social networking, has formally closed his Twitter account. He's following through on his 'I'm out' statement.

Social Parody Inspired by the Controversial Mother of Octuplets, Nadya Suleman, Highlights America's Need for Fame and Money

Deep engagement with consumers through social media channels correlates to better financial performance, says new study.

Nokia, the world's top mobile phone maker, plans to launch the 6760 Slide -- a messaging slider focused on social networking -- in Europe.