The Oxbridge whitewash

[siobhanc92]

 The Oxbridge whitewash

One college has not let in a black student for five years - a hike in fees will further entrench this bias

David Lammy

On Thursday MPs vote on whether to treble tuition fees. Ministers insist that unprecedented debt levels will not put poor students off doing degrees. But what will be asked of universities in return for

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[siobhanc92]

I'm not sure to be honest. Although I don't have a hard time believing it.

[trialia]

So very not surprised. *sighs*

[joshlymanftw]

No opinion on the article, just wanted to say to the OP Toby Ziegler FTW.

[jslayeruk]

OP: You should highlight the article somewhere on the page: Twenty-one Oxbridge colleges took no black students last year.

Seriously, WTF.

Some other harrowing statistics from the article:

"The [Freedom of Information] data also shows that of more than 1,500 academic and lab staff at Cambridge, none are black. Thirty-four are of British Asian origin."

"The [Freedom of Information] figures show large parts of the country never send students to the most prestigious universities. No one from Knowsley, Sandwell and Merthyr Tydfil has got to Cambridge in seven years. In the last five years, pupils from Richmond upon Thames have received almost the same number of offers from Oxford as the whole of Scotland."

[zoram]

You will not find these figures on the Oxford or Cambridge websites.

Have you tried googling "oxford admissions statistic"?

[zoram]

Not trying to be snarky, I'm just saying that literally the first link that comes up has stats of the ethnicity of the applicants.

[bethan_b_bad]

But I'm pretty sure that's not the point of what the writer is saying: what they mean is that Oxford and Cambridge are not publicising the figures themselves.

[zoram]

It is on their website. They are publishing those figures themselves.