http://www.thehomeworkspot.com Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:10:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.thehomeworkspot.com/entrants-at-university-47 http://www.thehomeworkspot.com/entrants-at-university-47#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:16:51 +0000 Bradley http://www.thehomeworkspot.com/?p=47 Recent reports suggest that more and more of England’s poorest youngsters are now going to university. This is good news but in stark contrast the entrants from wealthy backgrounds are three times more likely to win a place. The numbers are up by 30% of those from poor area going to university then they were 5 years ago. Ministers are saying this is ‘record investment’ but there’s still a big gap as only a fifth of the poorest youngsters are at university compared to 57% from richer backgrounds. The study did also find that the gap between the rich and poor had widened by one percent since 1994.

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