New data show that poor white teens are the least likely group to attend university.
The Office for Students (OfS) claims that ‘poor white teens’ are being ‘left behind’ by not going to university.
Chris Millward, the director for fair access and participation at the OfS, looked at a ‘combination of factors such as race, poverty and place’ and identified 90 per cent of those young people in the lowest higher-education-participation quintile as white British. These young people also either received free school meals or grew up in neighbourhoods with low HE-participation rates.
