UK: University entrance: The ‘taboo’ about who doesn’t go

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2020-09-28 01:42

Article here. Excerpt:

'He's a white working-class boy who is going to university.

More than half a million new students will be heading off to start at universities across the UK this term, with record numbers set to enter despite all the Covid complications.

But white males from low-income families are the "least likely" group to be going, according to the most recent figures from the Department for Education.'

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