§ Miss Boothroydasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to the numbers and percentages of school pupils attending (a) public sector schools and (b) assisted and independent schools who subsequently attended (i) Oxford,
School leavers who intended to go to full-time courses of higher and further education 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 Number (000's) Per cent. Number (000's) Per cent. Number (000's) Per cent. Number (000's) Per cent. Number (000's) Per cent. Number (000's) Per cent. Number (000's) Per cent. Number (000's) Per cent. Number (000's) Per cent. Number (000's) Per cent. Maintained Schools Total leavers 599.84 100.0 608.84 100.0 624.73 100.0 665.13 100.0 682.20 100.0 693.84 100.0 706.11 100.0 689.89 100.0 706.69 100.0 721.81 100.0 Leavers going to Oxford or Cambridge† 1.79 0.3 2.06 0.3 1.91 0.3 1.80 0.3 2.13 0.3 1.92 0.3 2.00 0.3 2.07 0.3 2.28 0.3 1.81 0.3 Other Universities 22.48 3.7 22.87 3.8 25.86 4.1 26.34 4.0 29.18 4.3 30.02 4.3 30.64 4.3 29.03 4.2 28.52 4.0 28.67 4.0 Polytechnics 9.44 1.6 10.00 1.6 12.22 2.0 13.02 2.0 12.10 1.8 13.07 1.9 13.44 1.9 16.57 2.4 18.77 2.7 17.19 2.4