Oxbridge elitism: how many black and poor students go to Oxford and Cambridge?
New data gives a picture of the divide in race and class at Oxford and Cambridge. Find out how many people went there from where you live.
Are black students excluded from Oxbridge? How many people from your local authority went to Oxford or Cambridge? A series of requests made under the Freedom of Information act by Labour MP David Lammy show that Oxford's social profile is 89% upper and middle class while the Cambridge student body is 87.6% drawn from the top three socio-economic groups. The average for universities in Britain is 66%.
Click for Guardian DATA BLOG by Simon Rogers, 7th December 2010, revealing all the unpalatable facts, and some responses to them (exits www.akme).
Click for Guardian front page news report article and David Lammy's comment article, 7/12/2010
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