UK: UCAS chief warns over 'worrying' university gender gap

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The head of UCAS warns that men risk being turned into an under-represented group on university campuses because of the gulf in applications between the sexes.
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By 2025, the gulf in access between men and women will actually be more pronounced than that seen between deprived and wealthy students.

Mrs Curnock Cook said the “very worrying difference between application rates for men and women” should now be treated as an “important widening participation issue” in its own right.

“Women are a third more likely to apply for higher education,” she said. “In fact, our report last year showed we've got to the stage where more women are entering higher education than men are applying and the gap is getting wider.”

Research by UCAS showed that some 30 per cent of 18-year-old men applied to university straight from school or college in 2012, while 24.6 per cent were admitted.

For women, 40 per cent applied and 32.5 per cent were given places.'