Writing for the Mirror, Mark Ellis reports on new Sutton Trust research.

White working class boys face a “double whammy” that blights their chances of further study after taking GCSEs, a study reveals.

Fewer than one in three who come from low-income homes in poor neighbourhoods continue academic studies after 16.

Oxford University researchers have highlighted the “double disadvantage” of poverty and living in rundown areas after tracking the lives of 3,000 teenagers.

Just 29% of the ‘double disadvantaged’ will continue to take AS, A levels or another qualification after GCSE.

That compares with around half (46%) of white working class boys living in more affluent areas and two-thirds (68%) of boys from better-off families.

The study for the education charity, The Sutton Trust, finds that boys are significantly less likely to carry on with academic study than girls.

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