White Working Class Males in British Higher Education
Figure 10 : Young HE participation in Southampton using POLAR3
Most of the wards within Portsmouth and the surrounding areas are Quintile 1 or Quintile 2 , the lowest two quintiles for rates of participation within higher education . “ Progression to HE [ Higher Education ] is under 26 % in much of our local area [ Portsmouth ], with progression from some local wards as low as 8 %” ( University of Portsmouth , 2016 , p . 6 ).
Figure 11 : Young HE participation in Portsmouth using POLAR3
The University of Portsmouth has used POLAR data to strategically target outreach to wards in and around Portsmouth that are especially disadvantaged , with very low higher education participation rates among the young residents , as highlighted by the following table :
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