Last year the Department of Education tracked the progress of all university students who enrolled in 2005.
Particularly from an institution that is seen as upper middle class, the most privileged students, it's important that we understand that the rise in fees affect us and the progress of the university.
One regent, Tom Sayles, stated, "We still value diversity, but if we don't know who our students are, how will we know how we are doing?" UC Berkeley student Mo Kashmiri, who's comments were also reported in the Chronicle article, said he fears passage of the initiative will make it harder to track the progress of the university's efforts to diversify its student body.
By this time there were 470 boys at the school, more than half of whom progressed to universities or higher education.
Just 16% of pupils who are eligible for free school meals progress to university compared to the 96% of those who are taught in independent schools.
The problem is that 360,000 of the 600,000 kids who take GCSEs don't get five good ones and therefore don't progress to A-level, and therefore cannot progress to university.
He said these exams, sat after the first stage of A-level education, were an "invaluable indicator of progress" in helping universities widen participation by giving bright students from less privileged backgrounds the confidence to apply to top universities.
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, said the cap could undo much of the progress universities had made in raising funding from private donors.
"As many recent reports have shown, and as Professor Ebdon has recently highlighted, we need to see more progress in universities increasing recruitment of students from poorer backgrounds.
Industry and government of Korea had in time recognized the significance and impact that universities could have in the progress of the economy and understood that without augmenting competitiveness of universities, then national competitiveness could not be enhanced.
