A-level students ‘still look to move away’ for university

By Jack Grove. Fewer sixth-form students want to attend a university near their home despite tuition fees rising to £9,000 a year, a new survey says. 
Only around one in 20 prospective students in state and independent schools say they want to study in their home area, according to a poll of more than 17,000 sixth-form students by career guidance firm Cambridge Occupational Analysts. Just 7 per cent of would-be students in the UK who responded to the survey say they prefer to remain near their home, compared with 9 per cent in 2011 and 15 per cent in 2004. Read more...