Higher Education: Admissions Mr. Laws To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what proportion of full-time first degree students at (a) Oxford, (b) Cambridge, (c) the London School of Economics and (d) Durham University were from (i) private schools in the UK, (ii) grammar schools in the UK, (iii) maintained schools in the UK that are non grammar and (iv) outside the UK in each year from 1990 to 2007. Bill Rammell The available information is shown in the table. These figures show the proportion of UK-domiciled young (under 21) entrants to full-time first degree courses, who are from state schools. This information is published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) within the annual Performance Indicators in Higher Education publication. This information is not available for other school types. For each institution, the state school proportion is shown against a benchmark. This is a sector average which is adjusted for each institution to take into account the following factors: subject of study, qualifications on entry and age on entry. The benchmarks can be used to show how a university is performing compared to the sector as a whole, and also help to determine whether a meaningful comparison can be drawn between two or more universities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |University of Cambridge1|University of Durham|London School of Economics|University of Oxford| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Academic year |Percentage |Benchmark |Percentage |Benchmark |Percentage|Benchmark|Percentage|Benchmark| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1997/98 |51.7 |62.8 |62.0 |74.0 |56.8|70.1|46.8|65.4| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1998/99 |53.2 |65.8 |63.1 |76.8 |61.8|73.9|49.8|68.2| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1999/2000 |52.2 |65.4 |61.7 |76.2 |57.7|72.5|57.7|72.5| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2000/01 |53.4 |66.1 |62.4 |76.3 |65.6|73.1|52.9|67.9| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2001/02 |54.5 |67.9 |66.7 |77.5 |64.0|73.6|54.5|68.6| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2002/03 |57.6 |76.8 |68.3 |80.1 |66.1|79.3|55.4|77.2| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003/04 |56.9 |75.3 |63.8 |78.9 |64.3|78.2|53.8|75.2| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004/05 |56.8 |75.0 |62.9 |77.4 |61.5|76.4|53.4|74.6| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005/06 |— |— |61.8 |78.9 |59.4|76.0|53.7|75.4| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Figures are not available for the University of Cambridge for 2005/06. Source: "Performance indicators in Higher Education", published by HESA.| | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Figures for 2006/07 will become available in 2008. Figures are not available for earlier years than 1997/98.