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Posted: Thursday January 20th, 2005 04:46 |
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Donald MacLeod
Wednesday January 19, 2005
Whether a young person goes to university or not is almost entirely dependent on where they live and whether they come from a "good" neighbourhood, according to a major survey of the whole of Great Britain published today.
The report sets out the proportion of school leavers from each of 8,000 wards who progressed to higher education, revealing a picture of divided cities where areas next to each other geographically are a world apart when it comes to children's life chances. Most of the new places created at universities have gone to young people from middle class areas.
At parliamentary constituency level glaring contrasts are clear across the country. In Sheffield, for instance, David Blunkett's Brightside constituency sent only 8% of 18-year-olds to higher education in 2000 - the lowest in the country - compared to 62% in Sheffield Hallam, reveals today's report from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce).
The participation rate in Kensington and Chelsea is 79%, followed by City and Westminster on 65% and the well-heeled Glasgow suburb of Eastwood on 63%, where more than 1,100 students gained university places.
At the other end of the scale the presence of two universities in their respective cities has made little impact on Nottingham North, with a participation rate of 9%, or Bristol South (10%). Neighbourhood-level geographies show that there are broad and deep divisions in the chances of going into higher education according to where you live says the report, which analysed participation between 1997 and 2000.
"Young people living in the most advantaged 20% of areas are five to six times more likely to enter higher education than those living in the least advantaged 20% of areas. Maps of local participation patterns - such as those presented through Polar - reveal that many cities and towns are educationally divided, containing both neighbourhoods where almost no one goes to university and neighbourhoods where two out of three or more will enter higher education," it adds.
The participation rate for 18-year olds in England is about 30% - lower than the government's famous 50% target which includes everyone under the age of 30.
The rate in Scotland is 9% higher for 18-year olds which the Hefce report says is due to the high number of young people (about one in four) who study Higher National Diplomas (HNDs) at further education colleges. The report notes that in the most deprived areas of Glasgow like Springburn and Shettleston that participation is about 21% - lower than elsewhere in Scotland but double the rate for similarly deprived areas in the north east of England.
In these Glasgow constituencies more than half of higher education students are at local further education colleges.
For all the Labour government's talk of expanding higher education to 50% of young people (under 30), the big expansion happened under the Conservatives when participation doubled between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Between 1994 and 2000 young participation (18-year olds) rose by two percentage points.
Around the middle of this period student grants were replaced by loans, and tuition fees were introduced but Hefce dismisses this as a brake on expansion. "No evidence is found that this had any material effects on participation. For example, there is no evidence that young people changed their decisions on whether to enter higher education, when to enter or where to study to avoid the introduction of tuition fees."
North-south divide
The report, Young Participation in Higher Education, adds that there are substantial regional differences when it comes to those who attend university. "Young people in some regions [are] 50% more likely to enter higher education than their peers in other regions," it states.
"There are also regional differences in participation trends. The growth of young participation in London has been particularly high, so that it has overtaken the southeast to become the highest-participating English region. In contrast, low participation regions such as the northeast have seen little growth in young participation over the period, with the result that they have fallen further behind and inequalities between regions have increased."
Men are steadily falling behind women, concludes the report, with young women in England 18% more likely to go to university or college. This inequality is more marked for young men in the most disadvantaged areas and compounded by the fact that men are more likely to drop out of university.
There is also an age effect, with the youngest in the class faring worse on average. In England those born in the autumn - and therefore the oldest in their school year group - are up to 20% more likely to enter higher education at the age of 18 than those born in the summer.
Hefce found that the gap in participation between well-off and disadvantaged areas widened slightly between 1997 and 2000. "This means that although the extra entrants resulting from the higher participation over the period are slightly more evenly distributed than before, most of the new places in higher education have gone to those from already advantaged areas," concludes the report.
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Posted: Saturday May 14th, 2005 21:38 |
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| they have been saying thsi for time. the uk is always a about postcode lottery for education health etc.
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