Graduates

(asked on 12th April 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Lord Livermore Portrait
Lord Livermore
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of graduates from Russell Group universities came from state comprehensive schools in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Portrait
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
This question was answered on 19th April 2016

Information on the percentage of applications to Russell Group Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) coming from state comprehensive schools is held by the University and Colleges Admissions Services, rather than Government.

The proportion of young full-time first degree entrants coming from state schools over the past ten years is set out in the table below:

Percentage of UK-domiciled young (1) full-time first degree entrants from state schools

English Higher Education Institutions

Academic Years 2005/06 to 2014/15

Academic Year

All Russell Group HEIs in England (2)

All English HEIs

2005/06 (3)

72.90%

86.90%

2006/07

72.60%

87.20%

2007/08

73.30%

87.40%

2008/09

73.30%

88.00%

2009/10

72.90%

88.40%

2010/11

72.60%

88.20%

2011/12

72.50%

88.50%

2012/13

74.10%

89.00%

2013/14

75.50%

89.40%

2014/15

75.80%

89.60%

Source: HESA Performance Indicators

Notes:
(1) Young students are those younger than 21 at 30 September in the academic year in which they commenced their studies
(2) The Russell Group HEIs included are all those that were part of the Russell Group on April 13th 2016
(3) Data for 2005/06 excludes the University of Cambridge due to a change in its data recording for that academic year

Statistics on the percentage of graduating students who came from state schools is not publicly available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced in January 2016 that the Government intends to legislate to require individual universities to publish statistical information on application, offer and progression rates broken down by gender, class and ethnicity in order to make each institution’s record on diversity more transparent.

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