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Source: The Guardian

Nov 03, 2009

Summary

White students do better than their black and Asian peers

Equality

You note that while 37.7% of black students got a first or 2.1 in 2007-08 and 46.9% of Asian students did, the comparable figure for white students was 66.4% (Giving everyone an equal chance?, 27 October). There is a massive task to stop looking for excuses, although understanding the statistics is important, and to start challenging institutional racism in academia here. No amount of explaining away the figures can get away from that.

Keith Flett

Tottenham, London

• The assumption is that universities will take voluntary action and the situation will improve without any regulatory measures. Target-setting and quotas have really improved the situation in northern Europe. The Equality Challenge Unit findings could have been considered in light of the most recent scientific evidence. Instead, the piece repeats the boring mantra of the liberals, who wish for sophisticated solutions but remain anaemic in offering them. Sophisticated solutions are known. There is not the political or institutional wil

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