Abstract
Private school pupils continue to be disproportionately represented among medical students, show figures from the Higher Education Statistics Authority. A quarter of medical students in the first year of their first degree have had a private school education, despite these schools educating just 7% of pupils across the UK.1 From 2007-08 to 2011-12 the proportion of medical students who had been privately educated fell by just one percentage point, from 26.9% to 25.9%. Over the same period the proportion of students of white ethnic background rose from 71.3% to 72.5% and that of students of Asian ethnic background fell from 20.6% to 18.9%. The proportion of medical students of black ethnic background rose from 2.5% in 2007-08 …
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