English universities deemed to provide high-quality teaching often recruit fewer disadvantaged students, new research has revealed.
The Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) said its report suggested that those who received Free School Meals (FSM) continued to lose out even after entering higher education.
For the study, Antony Moss, director of education and student experience at London South Bank University, compared the results of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) with the proportion of FSM students at each provider.
TEF awards institutions gold, silver or bronze ratings based on their teaching, learning and student outcomes, and whether these are consistent across different types of student.
