It is a scandal that ethnic minority kids are more likely to go to university than poor white ones

By James Kirkup. The headline finding is that ethnic minority kids are more likely to go to university than white British ones. And that’s from any minority group, not an aggregate of all minorities. So a black British kid of African background (56.6 per cent) is more likely to go to university than a white one (32.6 per cent). A British Pakistani kid (44.7 per cent) is more likely to go to university than a white kid. And so on. Read more...