More than half of universities have fewer than 5% poor white students
John-Russell Barnes has three part-time jobs to help support his mother and sisters. But that’s not what makes the 18-year-old from Hastings unusual.
He’s a white working-class boy who is going to university.
More than half a million new students will be heading off to start at universities across the UK this term, with record numbers set to enter despite all the Covid complications.
But white males from low-income families are the “least likely” group to be going, according to the most recent figures from the Department for Education.
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