The Guardian has today released the participation rates of students from lower class backgrounds at UK universities. The North East universities I’ve attended don’t fair particularly well (from my point of view). Durham has a shocking, though unsurprising, 2:3 ratio of private:state school students; compared to a national average of 1:10. Newcastle fairs slightly better but is still a way off the national average.

It’s also interesting to note that those with higher proportions of better off students have lower drop out rates.

It would be interesting to see the subject breakdowns for each uni; I suspect medicine comes near the bottom!