Diversity statistics for 2016-2018 [undergraduate law]

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Jasonara Stathamara

Dear Sir/Madam,

The following request refers to students who enrolled in a law-related (i.e. Group M) course at the university in the following three years: 2016, 2017, 2018.

By ‘law-related course’, I refer to both single honours law and any law with a language, law with a year abroad, or joint honours law programmes which admitted students during this period.

My request:

Please provide the following information about the relevant students’ background for each of the three years (2016, 2017, 2018):

a. The % of students who are Black or Minority Ethnic (‘BME’);

b. The % of UK-domiciled students who have come from a postcode that falls within POLAR4 young participation quintiles 1 or 2;

c. The % of all students (UK and EU and non-EU) who attended a private/fee-paying/independent school;

d. The 10 most commonly-occurring secondary schools among all students who enrolled, whether these are located in the UK or abroad. Please provide this as a list in descending order of enrolment.

Best Regards,
Jason Markoutsis

FOI, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Dear Jason

 

Please find below the information held by the University in the categories
you have requested.  Note that, for 2018/19, this includes enrolments as
at our census point of 8^th October 2018.

 

a) The % of students who are Black or Minority Ethnic (‘BME’)

 

Figure 1: Proportion
of Manchester Law
School first degree
students who are from
Black, Asian or
Minority Ethnic groups
(2016/17 to 2018/19):
16/17 17/18 18/19
% 50.5% 51.3% 52.0%
BAME

 

 

b. The % of UK-domiciled students who have come from a postcode that falls
within POLAR4 young participation quintiles 1 or 2:

 

Figure 2: Proportion of UK
domiciled Manchester Law School
first degree students who are
from POLAR4 young participation
quintiles 1 or 2:
16/17 17/18 18/19
Low
participation
neighbourhoods
(Quintiles 1
and 2) 36.4% 35.9% 37.0%

 

 

c. The % of all students (UK and EU and non-EU) who attended a
private/fee-paying/independent school:

 

Figure 3: Proportion of
Manchester Law School first
degree students who attended a
private/fee-paying/independent
school:
16/17 17/18 18/19
Independent
School 1.9% 1.7% 1.4%
State School 64.8% 72.8% 70.1%
Unknown 33.4% 25.4% 28.5%

 

 

d. The 10 most commonly-occurring secondary schools among all students who
enrolled, whether these are located in the UK or abroad. Please provide
this as a list in descending order of enrolment.

 

The University does not hold this specific information.  We are able to
identify previous institutions, from UCAS data, but in many cases this
will be an FE or 6^th Form College, not a secondary school; across Greater
Manchester the majority of secondary schools are age 11-16, not 11-18.  On
this basis, we have provided below the top ten previous institutions,
although the largest category is ‘unknown’:

 

Figure 4: Top ten previous institutions of Manchester Law School first
degree new entrants (2016/17 to 2018/19):

 

Unknown
Loreto
College
Xaverian
College
Aquinas
College
Ashton
Sixth
Form
College
Oldham
Sixth
Form
College
Bolton
Sixth
Form
College
Holy
Cross
College
Rochdale
Sixth
Form
College
Bury
College
Whalley
Range
11-18
High
School

 

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Legal Services | Manchester Metropolitan University

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Jasonara Stathamara

Thank you for your detailed response.

Yours sincerely,

Jasonara Stathamara