the given bar chart illustrates the number of students applied for university, the line graph shows the amount of money spent on each student between 1997 and 2001 whereas the pie chart demostrates the figure of student’s family backgrounds in 2001.
Overall, the first graph suggests a leap before taking a small decrease, the second graph indicates a big fall in number while the last chart presents that most pupils came from high income families in the year 2001.
Looking at both the bar graph and the line chart, there are some interesting points to take note. In terms of the amount of students enrolling in university, the starting number was around 1.2 million people in the UK in 1997 with each person getting approximately 600 pounds from the government. Since then, the figure only increased and reached its peak at roughly 1.8 million students in 2000 before having a decrease in the year after to about 1.6 million. Opposite to that, the pounds per student each learner recieve plummeted, dropping from the stated 600 pounds to hardly reaching the 150 pounds mark between 1997 to 2000 and remained unchanged in the year after.
Moving to the pie graph, we can see that the family backgrounds of UK university students varied in three types: low income, medium income and high income. It can be clearly seen that most students in the UK in 2001 came from weathly families, accounted for 60%. Following it is people from middle class background, making up 32% while students with low income family only took up 8% of the total percentage.