UK qualifications gap

One in nine adults have no formal qualifications and there are huge local variations in levels of education within Britain's adult population, reveals an analysis published by the University and College Union.

It shows a Britain divided by a wide educational gulf: in some areas, a third of 16 to 64 year-olds are without qualifications, while in others the proportion is as low as two per cent.

In the Glasgow North East constituency 35 per cent of adults have no qualifications, compared to only 1.9 per cent in Brent North.

The UCU analysis shows that in some southern constituencies it has become very unusual not to have qualifications - while in parts of the West Midlands it remains widespread.

There are more people without qualifications in Birmingham Hodge Hill than in Cambridge, Winchester, Wimbledon, Buckingham, Romsey, Leeds North West and four other constituencies put together.

Source: http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=5676