Despite, being the second most emphasised category in 1997, went on to have a marginal decline of 4%, ending up at 17% in 2007. Thank you so much i just got so many new ideas through your video❤
I think you have already covered it in your first sentence of the last paragraph. But, if not, I would write it thus: The chunk of students who chose university on the basis of good quality resources dropped gently to below one-fifth (17%) from just over a fifth (21%).