News this week that the total of 32 black students accepted by Oxford University in 2011 represents an increase from last year, is not much to write home about when 2010 figures show that fewer than one in 100 students beginning courses at Oxford or Cambridge were black.
At Cambridge, the number of admissions for black students fell to 16 out of an intake of 2,624, compared with 25 the previous year.
Earlier this year David Cameron called the universities' ethnic admissions figures 'disgraceful', though this was based on incorrect information that only one British black student had been accepted by Oxford in 2009.
At Cambridge, the number of admissions for black students fell to 16 out of an intake of 2,624, compared with 25 the previous year.
Earlier this year David Cameron called the universities' ethnic admissions figures 'disgraceful', though this was based on incorrect information that only one British black student had been accepted by Oxford in 2009.
The organisation Operation Black Vote has commented that black students are being 'squeezed out of Oxbridge' and consequently out of elite careers like politics that seem to depend largely on that particular education. It said: 'The grim educational reality is those costly private institutions with small classes and a dedicated focus on preparing for Oxbridge entrance fantastically gives an advantage to the privileged. Adding to the squeeze, middle class families are now saturating both Faith and Grammar schools - once a route for bright working class kids, Black and White, to enter Oxbridge...'
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