Many of those children, like Santiago, also attend regular school -- but less than 20percentt will go on to higher education (Source: Secretary of Education, Cali).
Intake of federal student loan dollars, by higher education sector Source: Department of Education.
Intake of federal Pell Grant dollars, by higher education sector Source: Department of Education.
15 Ethnicity data and the percentage of the total population without any higher education were sourced from the Office of National Statistics 2011 Census.
In the United States, 36% of expenditure on higher education come from public sources, and 64% come from private sources.
Only 15% of spending on higher education comes from public sources, compared to an OECD average of 69%.
The findings come at a difficult time for higher education, as the traditional sources of revenue for colleges and universities — tuition, state financing and fund-raising — have been squeezed by the financial crisis, even as costs have increased.
Education, especially higher education, needs reform.
Earlier, in a speech to a private meeting of university vice-chancellors, he said any cut in university tuition fees would have to be offset by increases in higher education funding from other sources.
