Students from areas with higher proportions of lone parent families in the UK are less likely to know if any parent has higher education qualifications, according to research.
Studies into social mobility show that students are more likely to enter higher education if their parents also attended university.
To measure the participation of under-represented students, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) asked entrants if their parents had higher education qualifications.
Recent figures for 2021-22 showed that 45 per cent of students’ parents did attend university and 39 per cent did not – but the answers of the remaining students were not recorded.
