Nov 13 2007

I don’t mean to be pedantic, but..

Published by neiljones at 10:48 pm under Idle Thoughts

Forgive me for being an anorak, but I felt that I had to get to the bottom of the conflicting reports last week from the Guardian & BBC.  So I went on a hunt for the data upon which the reports were based.  The trail lead me to a wonderful corner of the DCSF website, the Research & Statistics Gateway, that one could quite easily lose oneself in for, oh, minutes!

Anyway, to cut a long story short, after compiling some data on pupil numbers, I managed to produce the following pictoral evidence (thanks to the wonderful Zoho suite of online applications).  Indeed, the numbers in Independent Schools remain healthy.  I calculated the number of pupils at Independent schools as a percentage of the total number of pupils in full time education in the UK.  For the raw data, this is the link to the Zoho database table.


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