University entrance: The ‘taboo’ about who doesn’t go
The gap is so wide that the chairman of the House of Commons education select committee, Robert Halfon, says there has almost been a"taboo" talking about it.But why are young white males from poorer backgrounds so less likely to go to university?
He thinks boys are particularly susceptible to short-term incentives, taking the quick cash available and putting off going to university in a way that means it will never really happen. "I've always been quite set on it," he says, and he's been supported by the Villiers Park trust, a charity which works with bright disadvantaged youngsters trying to get into university.The view from Hastings beach: John-Russell has been working with the Villiers Trust on raising horizons
There's also the"fear of the unknown", he says, that it's"intimidating" to move into something very different and away from home and family, with no guarantee of a good job at the end. Women have continued to get more places and accelerated further ahead of men - and boys from middle-class families are able to stay on the conveyor belt that takes them seamlessly from school to university.
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