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The Independent has an article which reveals that the proportion of university students from state schools is lowest it has been for three years. The proportion of working-class students has also fallen, along with the number of young people from the most deprived neighbourhoods. Having said that, ‘86.7 per cent of university places were taken by state-school pupils in 2004/05, a drop of 0.1 percentage points on the previous year and 0.5 percentage points down on 2002/03’s figure. About 93 per cent of young people are educated at state schools.’ So the question is, so what?
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