Worry that Cumbria's kids are still disadvantaged in higher education
There are concerns that children from Cumbria, who are seen as disadvantaged in school, are still losing out on opportunities when they go to university.
Data from think tank, the Higher Education Policy Institute, seems to show that no college or university with more than 30% of free school meal students received a gold award under the Teaching Excellence Framework.
The universities of Bath, Exeter, Oxford and Loughborough were among the gold award winners with the lowest proportion of FSM entrants in 2020/21, the research said.
Those with the highest proportion of FSM entrants included Middlesex University, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London South Bank University and Roehampton University - all of which received silver awards.
Campaigners are now calling for more to be done to recognise that those in poverty may be struggling, and not receiving the benefits other students get.
Andy Brewerton, from the Cumbrian branch of the National Education Union, said: "Some of these children are in positive because their parents are ill, and that takes over their whole life.
"We need to be looking at all sorts of things - such as sleep depravation. There's plenty of kids in Cumbria who share a bed."
The report author Professor Moss has suggested funding arrangements should change to ensure "those universities educating the majority of England's disadvantaged students do not continue to lose out".