The phrase "school intake" is a correct and commonly used construction in written English.
It refers to the group of students who are admitted to a particular school at a specific time, usually at the beginning of the academic year. Example: "The school's new intake of students this year is significantly higher than last year's, with over 200 new students joining us." "The school is currently accepting applications for the next intake, so interested parents are encouraged to submit their child's admission forms soon."
The relevant school intake comprised pupils who would have been admitted before the school became grant-maintained.
There was That Was the Week That Was, new plays and other programmes by the eager grammar school intake – Dennis Potter, Alan Bennett, Ken Loach, David Mercer and others.
And, whereas the Conservative position degrades as inflation erodes the value of the ring-fenced per-pupil payment with the passing of time, Labour's takes its biggest hit in 2017-18, when the increase in school intake peaks.
The problem is not unique to my college, with a current access officer at an Oxford college known for its high state school intake suggesting that while headteachers are often keen to get involved, other teachers can be more reluctant.
Rather than university intake necessarily having to reflect society as suggested by Simon Hughes (Universities must cut private school intake, 8 January), the universities' mission is to take the best from society and help them develop them into critically thinking, challenging and competent members of that society for the greater good of all.
The study also finds that the bulk of university access campaigns, aimed at boosting the comprehensive school intake into some of Britain's best universities, - appear to be misdirected, and that more effort could instead be put into improving GCSE results and subject choices to widen participation.
Without some serious thinking about why our schools are so segregated and how to change that – and analysis of the government's own data about school intakes shows clearly that the existing grammar schools are the main culprits – the slogan is vacuous rhetoric.
"The freeing-up of state schools makes it even more important that strong checks and balances and incentives are in place so that school intakes reflect the social mix of the communities they serve – and that any education reforms benefit all children, not just the most privileged," he said.
Male sex was also included as a disadvantaged category for two reasons; there is clear evidence that females are over-represented in medical school intakes compared with the UK population, 20 21 and univariate analysis showed that male sex was associated with a reduced odds of an offer.
It does better on state-school intake than Cambridge as a whole.
He says that an analysis of grammar schools' intake will be available in the next few weeks.
