More youngsters from poor homes go to university, By Hannah Richardson, January 28, 2010, BBC News: “More of England’s poorest youngsters are going to university, but the wealthiest are three times more likely to win a place, a report says. Youngsters in the poorest areas are 30% more likely to go to university than they were five years ago, England’s university funding agency Hefce said. A fifth of the poorest youngsters go to university, up from an eighth in 2004. This compares to 57% of the richest. Ministers said ‘record investment’ was helping more people go to university. The report by Hefce statisticians looks at trends in the university participation of 18 and 19-year-olds between 1994 and 2010…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty