The Daily Mail reports on the findings of new Sutton Trust research.
White working-class boys from poor neighbourhoods face a “double disadvantage” of low family income and poverty linked to their wider community, which makes them far less likely to continue academic study after GCSE, a report has suggested.
The Sutton Trust said fewer than a third (29%) of boys from this group would continue to take AS, A-levels or other qualifications after GCSE compared with just under half (46%) of white working-class boys living in more affluent areas and two-thirds (68%) of boys from more advantaged families.
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