Sentence examples for proportion of state from inspiring English sources

He wants to raise the proportion of state school pupils getting into Trinity.

The proportion of state revenues raised from these over the past decade has doubled to 12%.

Cambridge's proportion of state school students actually fell last year, while Oxford had a slight increase.

A far lower proportion of state taxes are considered negotiable, but the fact is that it still happens.

Yet King's still has the highest proportion of state students at any Oxbridge college at 71%, compared with 51% at Trinity.

"Over the last two decades we at the Sutton Trust have worked very closely with both Oxford and Cambridge to increase the proportion of state school students.

Cambridge said this weekend that on its own benchmark figures, the proportion of state-school kids is not going to get better over the next three years.

In one example, Cambridge University's access agreement sets the goal of increasing the proportion of state-educated students to 61%-63% within five years.

He goes on: "It is not my aim to specifically socially engineer the composition of the Conservative frontbench, or to say that the judiciary has to have a set proportion of state-educated people.

The commission's report – likely to be the last under the current "social mobility tsar" Alan Milburn – will reveal that, despite an increase of 6% in the proportion of state-educated pupils between 2003-04 and 2013-14, independently schooled pupils still make up around two-fifths of the intake at both Oxford and Cambridge.

Written by the former Labour cabinet minister Alan Milburn and former Tory cabinet minister Gillian Shephard, his deputy on the commission, the report is expected to say that: ■ Despite an increase of 6% in the proportion of state-educated pupils between 2003-04 and 2013-14, independently schooled pupils still make up around two-fifths of the intake at both Oxford and Cambridge.