That is the verdict of a new report which shows that Welsh pupils’ chances of getting into university vary dramatically according to which school they go to and its location – and irrespective of their individual performance.
The Cardiff University study – entitled Access to Higher Education in Wales – has revealed that pupils at schools with strong records of higher education participation were almost three times as likely to go to university than those at schools with average levels of higher education participation.
The school and the local authority in which the pupils study was more important than their own educational attainment, socio-economic or ethnic background.
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