Six years ago, HEPI published the report Boys to Men: The underachievement of young men in higher education – and how to start tackling it.
It was an attempt to grapple with one of the most persistent challenges in the UK education system – the gap in GCSE outcomes and progression to higher education for young working-class men.
We’re now over half a decade on from the HEPI report, and we find ourselves confronting the fact that the rate of progression to higher education for the group is still at a dismal 14 per cent.
