Student Access Inequality

"Teenagers from well-off backgrounds are several times more likely to go to university than those from the most deprived areas, a report says.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England said more people went to university in 2000 than in 1994.

But the percentage of poorer students "hardly changed at all", said its chief executive, Sir Howard Newby.

Increasingly more women than men went to university, while tuition fees and student loans made no major difference."

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