Research conducted on behalf of the NCS Trust found that, overall, young people are four per cent more likely to go on to higher education if they take part in the programme, which involves a two-week residential trip and a social action project.
Young people from poor backgrounds were found to be even more likely to go on to university by attending.
Boys from the most deprived areas were 7.62 per cent more likely and the figure rises to 9.87 per cent among girls from the same areas.
However, researchers also found the programme had a negative impact on young people from the most affluent backgrounds. Boys from affluent backgrounds were 5.62 per cent less likely to go on to university, and girls from affluent backgrounds were 9.82 per cent less likely to go on to university.
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