Graduates
(asked on 1st March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of graduates from Russell Group universities in each year for the past 10 years came from each socio-economic group.
The information requested on applications to Russell Group Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) by socio-economic group is not held by government.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes information on students entering and qualifying from UK HEIs. A breakdown of this information for each National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC) grouping is not published and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.
Provider-level statistics on the share of students from disadvantaged backgrounds are published as part of HESA’s UK Performance Indicators, and these include data on the proportion of young full-time first degree entrants who fall under NS-SEC categories 4 to 7. The data is provided in the table:
Percentage of UK-domiciled young full-time first degree entrants from NS-SEC categories 4 to 7 (1) | |||||
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Academic Years 2005/06 to 2014/15 | |||||
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Academic Year | 2005/06 (2) | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 (3) | 2009/10 |
All Russell Group HEIs in England (2) | 19.3% | 19.0% | 19.1% | N/A | 18.5% |
All English HEIs | 29.1% | 29.8% | 29.4% | N/A | 30.1% |
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Academic Year | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
All Russell Group HEIs in England (2) | 18.8% | 18.3% | 19.7% | 20.0% | 20.2% |
All English HEIs | 30.7% | 30.9% | 32.8% | 33.1% | 33.1% |
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Source: HESA Performance Indicators |
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Notes: |
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(1) Groups 4 to 7 of the NS-SEC include small employers, own account workers, and lower supervisory, technical , semi-routine and routine occupations | |||||
(2) The Russell Group HEIs included are all those that were part of the Russell Group on March 8th 2016 | |||||
(3) Data for 2005/06 excludes the University of Cambridge due to a change in its data recording for that academic year | |||||
(4) The change in UCAS question for 2008/09 applicants had an impact on the NS-SEC indicators, making them incomparable with data published prior to and post 2008/09 | |||||
The Prime Minister announced in January 2016 that the Government intends to legislate to require individual universities to publish statistical information on admissions by gender, class and ethnic background in order to make each institution’s record on admissions more transparent.