The given charts provide information on the student population attending university in the UK and the types of family background they come from, as well as the government expenditure on each student in the ten years between 1991 to 2001.
As most evidently shown by the line chart, government spending has significantly fallen throughout the years in contradiction to the total number of students that has gradually risen. In addition, students coming from homes with middle income dominated the charts in 1991.
The total number of students in university in 1991 consisted of around 1 million students, 62% of them hailing from middle-class families. Subsequently, 30% of them came from high income families whereas 8% were low income. Over the next few years, an upward trend in the number of students can be seen, peaking in 1999 with over 2 million students before slightly declining back to 2 million in 2001.
Although the student population has made a moderate climb in numbers, government spending per student has plummetted from 6000 pounds in 1991 to roughly around 4800 in 1996, this has remained static until 2001.