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- Title
Who actually goes to university?
- Authors
Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna
- Abstract
Access to higher education (HE) is a major policy issue in England and Wales. There is concern that children from lower socio-economic backgrounds are far less likely to get a degree. We analyse the changing association between socio-economic background and the likelihood of going to university, using data from the Youth Cohort Study (YCS), spanning the period 1994–2000. We find evidence of substantial social class inequality in HE participation but conclude that this is largely due to education inequalities that emerge earlier in the education system. Conditional on GCSE and A level performance, we find no additional role for socio-economic background or parental education in determining pupils’ likelihood of going to university.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; WALES; HIGHER education; EDUCATION of poor people; SOCIAL classes; SOCIAL policy; GENERAL Certificate of Secondary Education
- Publication
Empirical Economics, 2007, Vol 32, Issue 2-3, p333
- ISSN
0377-7332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00181-006-0090-5