First-in-family students ‘more likely to drop out’ of university

Just not surprised.

When your parents haven't prepared you with anecdotes about the way other students behave from their own experiences, especially when your from the wrong socio-economical background, it's hardly surprising. In my time at University those of us not from a public school background had an awful time at the hands of some of those that were, now the affluent middle class students pick on the working class students in a similar way, dropping out to save one's sanity shows just how ineffectual some student support services are.