White Working Class Males in British Higher Education
Pre-16 education
Post 16 education ( incl App )
0 % 10 % 20 % 30 % 40 % 50 % 60 % 70 % 80 % 90 % 100 %
Get a job FE or sixth form education provision Higher eduation ( incl HE in FE )
Apprenticeship or other training programme Start a business Gap year
Figure 26 : What would you most like to do next ? Responses from post 16 level survey respondents
The questionnaire sought to test levels of interest in HE further by asking respondents to rank their agreement against certain statements . Subject to the caveat that the numbers of responses are very small ( particularly in the pre-16 cohort ), the sense emerged from the responses that males from areas of traditionally lower HE participation were less convinced in terms of their interest in HE at the pre-16 stage of education . However , at the post-16 level the gap between people who say ‘ yes ’ they are interested in HE was reversed . This reinforces the view that continuation in education at age 16 is a major constraint to HE progression amongst educationally disadvantaged pupils .
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