London leads charge into higher education

By Richard Adams. A sharp increase in the number of 18-year-olds from Peckham, Barking and Croydon going to university has helped London outpace the rest of the country in the proportion of young people entering higher education, a study reveals. According to the study published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce), young people from London are 36% more likely to enter higher education now than they were in the late 1990s. That compares with a 26% increase for the rest of the country. More...