Rising White Disadvantage in Academia
By Max Musson: In a recent five-year study conducted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and paid for by the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, it is revealed that indigenous British youngsters are now significantly less likely to be accepted as undergraduates at British universities than people other, minority ethnic groups. The statistics presented in the report show that in 2008: of those school students who described themselves…