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I am a privately educated student, and I think part of the reason behind that figure is the social stigma I mentioned earlier.
If you go to a private school and then don't go on to university, this brands you as a drop out or a failure. Obviously that's a generalization but it's fairly accurate, from my experience. Universities are really relying on the fact that nobody really knows the real deal until they are on the inside, which is also the issue that is impeding any real efforts to change anything.
Oddly enough, it's the students and the students alone who are in a position to do anything at all (in UAL), because if a tutor is critical of the college it could fairly easily mean the loss of their job. Direct opposition to the university doesn't work though, because UAL relies on the fact that any dissenting student is probably only dissenting because s/he's in 2nd year. And even if they're an unusual case, they are only going to be protesting for 3 years before they're out the other end and powerless once again.
In the eyes of my parents, and my old school teachers, universities seem to still be these shining bastions of uncorrupted educational excellence, which is obviously not the case.
oh, and MrSmyth: when i was on foundation at CSM, it was more or less a 50-50 split in terms of domestic and EU/international students. The reason being, that as an under 19 year old the course for me was free, subsidized by the government, but for an international student it costs somewhere in the region of £9-10K. Direct payment is always more desirable than government subsidy, probably because CSM sees the money quicker.