How sex affects your chances of going to uni
Today's HEFCE report has found that the gender gap in university admissions is growing. In England in 1994, young women were 6% more likely to go to university than men. By 2000, however, the participation rate among women had increased substantially while the male participation rate had stagnated, meaning that women were 18% more likely to enter higher education than men.
The gender gap is also much larger, and growing faster, in disadvantaged areas, where in 2000 young women were 30% more likely to go to university than young men, the report said.
When you were born also has an impact on your chances of going to university. If you were born in September, and thus one of the oldest in your school year, you were over 20% more likely to enter HE at 18 than if you were born in August.
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