Students from single parent families are three times more likely to say they cannot afford a university education, research has found.
The evidence from the Sutton Trust finds that the fear of debt is deterring “significant numbers” of young people from going to university.
Research by Ipsos MORI found that four in five 11 to 16-year-olds aspire to a higher education.
However, 36 per cent of students from single-parent families say they are unlikely to go into higher education because “my families couldn’t afford for me to be a student”. This compares to 13 per cent of students who come from families with two parents.
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