It’s official: Southerners dominate universities

According to a report from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), young Londoners are more likely to attend university that people from the north of the country.

The study, published this week, says that young people from the London area are 43% more likely to study at a university than their peers in the north-east, the part of England where young people are least likely to go on to higher education.

It also pointed out that the difference in participation between young people living in the most advantaged and most disadvantaged areas remains large, despite a 52% increase in participation among the disadvantaged.

We asked a few students what they thought of the report’s findings;  one student from the South said “I’m not surprised by the findings, a huge percentage of the people here in Leicester are from the south, particularly Surrey.”

Another said: “It’s common knowledge that students from the south dominate universities, especially in Leicester. When you ask someone where they’re from the answer is almost always a southern county or a London borough.”

Even students from the north agreed with the statement. One student told The Tab: “I can well believe it, not many people from my school went to uni and they were definitely more economically challenged as a whole.”