Who is missing from higher education?



over-represented social classes are now over six times as likely to continue to HE as
they were in 1940 whereas the figure for those in under-represented social classes is
over nine times. Since 1990, classes I to IIIN have improved their position by a factor
of 1.35 (or 50/37) whereas classes IIIM to V have improved theirs by a factor of 1.9
(19/10). Whatever the problem in the current situation is, it is better than it was - for
young students and insofar as existing figures allow us to judge.

Table 8 - Age participation index by collapsed social class in UK, 1940-2001

Year

I/II/IIIN

IIIM/IV/V

Overall

1940

3

3

-

1950

19^

3

-

1960

22

3

-

1970

32

3

-

1980

33

3

12

1985

33

3

14

1990

33

13

19

1991

33

ЇГ

23

1992

43

14

23

1993

43

13

30

1994

43

13

32

1995

43

13

32

1996

43

13

33

1997

43

13

34

1998

43

13

32

1999

43

13

32

2000

43

13

33

2001

53

19

35

Note: The API is the number of home-d
entrants to full-time and sandwich un

omiciled young (aged less than 21) initial
dergraduate courses of higher education

expressed as a proportion of the averaged 18 to 19 year old UK population.

Other commentators and analysts agree on this improvement and its scale (e.g.

Mayhew et al. 2004). Using a different dataset and approach Raffe et al. (2006) show

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