Thousands of students are still living in accommodation with the same flammable cladding as tragic Grenfell Tower.
A total of 62 university and college blocks were identified as being coated in the material that helped spread the 2017 inferno.
But only nine have had it stripped off, leaving 53 where it is still in place.
According to a report a ten-storey, 75-bedroom tower at Highbury College in Portsmouth has failed a safety test, although officials say there are “no immediate concerns”.
Portsmouth City Council said it was liaising with the building’s owners and Hampshire fire chiefs to ensure the cladding was removed.
The revelation comes a week after 100 people were evacuated amid a fire at a student flat block in Bolton.
A blaze which destroyed a block of cladding-covered flats in Brighton in 30 minutes is being probed.
