UK: Black and Asians Exceed White College Rate, Whites Asians Most at Top Universities
Black and Asian school-leavers more likely to go to university than their white peers
64% of Asian students and 62% of black students went on to higher education in 2012-13, compared to just 45% of white students.
h/t educationviews http://www.educationviews.org/black-asian-school-leavers-university-white-peers/
Asian students are the most likely to study at a top-flight university, with 12% going on to a Russell Group university – including Oxford and Cambridge – compared with 11% of white students and 6% of black students.
A similar picture can be seen post-GCSE, with 93% of Asian and black students continuing their education, compared to 87% of white students.
Ofsted, the schools watchdog, has previously highlighted the problem of underachievement of white working class children, which has also been the subject of an inquiry by the cross-party education committee.
Black and Asian school-leavers more likely to go to university than their white peers
64% of Asian students and 62% of black students went on to higher education in 2012-13, compared to just 45% of white students.
h/t educationviews http://www.educationviews.org/black-asian-school-leavers-university-white-peers/
Asian students are the most likely to study at a top-flight university, with 12% going on to a Russell Group university – including Oxford and Cambridge – compared with 11% of white students and 6% of black students.
A similar picture can be seen post-GCSE, with 93% of Asian and black students continuing their education, compared to 87% of white students.
Ofsted, the schools watchdog, has previously highlighted the problem of underachievement of white working class children, which has also been the subject of an inquiry by the cross-party education committee.
Geary determined that girls outperform boys in educational achievement in 70 percent of the countries they studied, regardless of the level of gender, political, economic or social equality.