Forsyth, AlasdairFurlong, Andy2020-04-172020-04-172000http://hdl.handle.net/10919/97732In Britain, despite these increases in the number of full-time students, there remains an under-representation in higher education of school-leavers from disadvantaged backgrounds. In 1997 approximately one third of school-leavers in the UK entered higher education. However, geographically this varied from over 80% in the most affluent areas to 3% in the most disadvantaged. This inequality of representation is certain to have negative consequences for both economic efficiency and social justice. This report details the nature of this under-representation and explores the reasons behind this situation.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statessocial justicesocial mobilityequal opportunity in educationUnited KingdomReporthttp://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.527.6475&rep=rep1&type=pdf