High tariff application rates
124 . This same analysis was also carried out on the gap in high tariff application rates , which we define as the proportion of the Key Stage 4 population which applied to at least one ‘ high tariff ’ higher education provider . 39
125 . As previously shown in Figure 9 , the gap in high tariff application rates between learners from Uni Connect areas and learners from other areas had widened , from 13.2 percentage points in 2016 to 14.8 percentage points in 2021 . This was an even greater increase than seen in the more broadly defined gap in application rates over the same period .
126 . However , after matching learners on a set of characteristics , Figure 17 below shows that the gap between the high tariff application rate of learners from Uni Connect areas and the average rate across the 1,000 matched counterfactual groups widened from 5.4 percentage points in 2016 to 5.8 percentage points in 2021 .
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See the OfS Key Performance Measure 2 for more information on how high tariff providers are defined : www . officeforstudents . org . uk / about / measures-of-our-success / participation-performance-measures / gap-inparticipation-at-higher-tariff-providers-between-the-most-and-least-represented-groups /.
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