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Ethnic minority students ‘forced into medicine and law’ by parents
Teenagers from ethnic minority families are coming under excessive pressure from parents to push for medicine and law degrees at top universities, the Government’s higher education access tsar has...
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If Gove axes AS-levels, equality will feel the blow
Franklyn Addo, a second year university student, believes modular courses and retakes help students in struggling schools bridge the gap between GCSE and A-level. This is from the Guardian… The...
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Oxford denies discriminating against ethnic minorities
Oxford University is being accused of “institutional bias” against ethnic minorities after figures showed stark differences in entry rates between racial groups. This is from the Telegraph… Figures...
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‘It’s essential that schools work hard to reduce inequality’
As a pupil Sameena Choudry wasn’t supported to reach her full potential. Now she’s dedicated her career to closing the achievement gap between different groups of pupils and is founder of Equitable...
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Cambridge University medicine admissions show race gap
People applying to study medicine at Cambridge University with three A*s at A-level are more than 20% more likely to be given an offer if they are white than if they are from an ethnic minority,...
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Schools ‘expelling too many ethnic minority boys’
Schools should stop expelling children over their hairstyle or attitude towards adults amid fears exclusion rules are discriminating against ethnic minority pupils, the Children’s Commissioner Dr...
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Michael Gove says universities must give more ‘honest’ guidance to state...
Responding to the report by Durham University on university admissions which suggested bias by top universities against state school and ethnic minority students, Education Secretary Michael Gove has...
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Video: 4 things we do to get ethnic minority students to succeed in science...
This is the latest TED talk and is from the US but has some interesting insights into the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, which is now achieving the highest success rates in the country for...
View ArticleRace row as Tory town tells Gove super-head: We don’t want your inner-city...
The Mail is reporting that Education Secretary Michael Gove has stepped into an extraordinary race row raging over an inner-city school’s plan to open its own boarding school in an affluent rural area....
View ArticleBoarding school row: It’s about planning, not race, locals insist
Plans to open a new state boarding school for poor children from south London in a rural beauty spot are an “experiment” which will turn the pupils in “political footballs,” a local councillor has...
View ArticleWarning from headteachers as parents dig deep to fund boom in private tutors
Parents on modest incomes and families from ethnic minorities are behind a massive boom in Britain’s multimillion-pound tutoring market, according to an investigation by the Guardian… Hundreds of...
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White pupils ‘less likely to apply for university than other ethnic groups’...
White teenagers are less likely to apply to university than youngsters from any other ethnic group, according to research, and girls are now a third more likely to apply than boys. This is from the...
View ArticleWhite boys ‘the problem’ for Britain’s schools, says Government aide
A senior Government education adviser has warned that for boys at least, “being white” had become “the problem” in schools. This is from the Telegraph… Britain cannot expect to flourish economically...
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Black children ‘still getting raw deal’ from the schools system, says Gove
The Independent is reporting Michael Gove as saying black children are still getting a raw deal from the schools system… For far too long, he said, there had been “shocking, stubborn gaps” in...
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Concerns that School Direct is not recruiting enough ethnic minority trainees
The TES is reporting that concerns have been raised that the government’s own teacher training programme is not recruiting enough trainees from ethnic minorities… A Freedom of Information request...
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White students get better degrees than minority peers with same entry grades
The Guardian has a different angle on the HEFCE research reporting that white university students at English universities receive significantly higher degree grades than their peers from minority...
View ArticleLack of ethnic minority headteachers is ‘scandalous’
The Independent is reporting that some of Britain’s best headteachers will temporarily hand over control of their schools this summer in an effort to tackle the “scandalously low” number of non-white...
View ArticleRural school deemed ‘too white’ by Ofsted visits London to mix with ethnic...
The Mail is reporting that a small rural primary school has organised a sleepover to London – so the children get a chance to see people who are not white… Payhembury Primary in Devon was criticised by...
View ArticleMore super-size primary schools and classes over legal limit in population surge
The BBC is reporting that the impact of the population boom on England’s school system has been revealed in annual official figures showing more super-size primary schools and infant classes over legal...
View ArticleBlack children have more concerns over job prospects than white
The BBC is reported research undertaken for its Newsround programme which suggests about one in five black children believe their skin colour could damage their job prospects… This figure compares with...
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