The gender divide could eclipse the poverty gap in applications to university within the next decade, it has been revealed.
The latest UCAS figures show that 87,000 more women than men have applied to higher education courses this year – a 7,000 increase when compared to 2013.
With 333,700 women applying in total compared against 246,300 men, it means that female students are now a third more likely to apply to higher education than their male counterparts.
At the same time, young people from the most disadvantaged areas in England are now almost twice as likely to apply as they were in 2004.
UCAS chief executive, Mary Curnock Cook, said that the gap between male and female applicants remained “stubborn” and that young men are becoming a “disadvantaged group” in terms of going to university.
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