Migrants living in the UK are more likely to have a higher education qualification than residents who were born in the country, figures suggest.
Findings from the 2021 census show that up to two-thirds of foreign-born residents in some parts of the UK attended higher education.
Overall, the data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that 44 per cent of adult residents born outside the UK had a higher education qualification at the time of the census on 21 March 2021 – compared with 31 per cent of UK-born residents.
The ONS said differences in age between UK-born and non-UK born residents account for about a third of the difference in the level of higher education qualifications, but the remaining gap was “harder to explain”.
