State v. Private: UoL Welcomes State School Pupils

Liverpool University one of five Russell Group unis to recruit enough state school students

Russell Group state school intake

Russell Group unis are failing to reach benchmark figures for the recruitment of state school pupils… except Liverpool.

Recent figures show 11 Russell Group universities, including Bristol, Warwick and Durham, are shunning state school students in favour of a privately educated minority.

Privately educated students accounted for four in every ten places in universities such as Oxbridge, Durham and Bristol in the year 2011/2012, even though only 7% of the population attend independent schools.

Only five Russell Group universities- Liverpool, Queen Mary, Sheffield, Southampton and Glasgow- reached official benchmarks for the recruitment of state school pupils.

Liverpool’s intake of state school pupils increased by 2% from the year 2010/2011.  Meanwhile Edinburgh’s intake of state school pupils has dropped by nearly 4%.

 

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