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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