Universities still dominated by middle class

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Findings that children from the richest households are far more likely to study at university come despite millions of pounds spent encouraging children from poorer and moderately well-off backgrounds to apply.

The study found that children from the richest two per cent of households were more than four times more likely to study at high-ranking universities such as Bristol and Warwick than children from average neighbourhoods.

They were twice as likely as the average child in Britain to go to university at all, according to research from market analyst firm Caci.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats claimed the study published in The Guardian was evidence that the Government had failed to improve social mobility.

A total of 17 universities across Britain gave Caci 1,000 random postcodes of first year undergraduates.

Caci found that children from the most affluent quarter of families accounted for 55 per cent of students at the top universities. The figure for the poorest quarter was 6.3 per cent.