Consultation outcome

Higher education statistics: children from disadvantaged backgrounds

• From: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
• Published: 8 June 2011

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Findings from the public consultation on statistics that measure the progress of children from disadvantaged backgrounds to higher education

Ref: BIS/11/1479

PDF, 131 KB, 3 pages

Detail of outcome

The statistics will be changed to include:

• greater clarity that the free school meals (FSM) and school type/selective university measures aim to contribute to the understanding of widening participation issues as part of a range of measures
• a detailed explanation of measures, including their limitations
• a table available in Excel format with time series of the FSM measure by local authority

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Original consultation

Summary

We’re asking for views on statistics that measure the number of children from disadvantaged backgrounds in higher education.

This consultation ran from
8 June 2011 to 11:45pm on 1 August 2011

Consultation description

We are monitoring the educational achievement of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds so we can find out how we can narrow the gap in achievement between disadvantaged youngsters and their peers.

We want to know if the Full-time young participation by socio-economic class (FYPSEC) statistics is the best method for measuring widening participation. It looks at whether a better alternative exists, such as the free school meals (FSM) measure. We also welcome any general comments about the scope and layout of the publication.

Documents

Consultation on statistics that measure the progress of children from disadvantaged backgrounds to higher education: full-time young participation by socio-economic class (FYPSEC)

Ref: BIS/11/965

PDF, 201 KB, 18 pages

Published 8 June 2011