Disadvantaged university students are three times more likely to live at home

New report says that social mobility is the preserve of ‘white, middle class, privately educated young people’

Fewer than 5,000 foreign students a year stay after their visas expire
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Poorer students are more than three times as likely to live at home while studying for a degree than their wealthier peers, according to a new study by the Sutton Trust.

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