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Current Educational Statistics - What we know

(Ethnicity Facts and Figures 2016/17 unless otherwise stated):

1. 79.5% of White graduates achieved a first class or 2:1 degree
compared to 55.6% of Black graduates (12.3% of Black

graduates achieved a first-class degree compared to 28.6% of

White graduates).

2. When HE providers were divided into 3 roughly equal groups
according to the number of UCAS points achieved by entrants

(referred to as high, medium, low entry tariffs), 80.5% of

entrant at ‘high’ tariff providers were White and 4.1% were

Black.

3. 28.6% of White graduates from undergraduate courses

achieved a first-class degree, the highest percentage out of all

ethnic groups, followed by 24.2% of graduate with Mixed
ethnicity.

4. Out of all ethnic groups, Black graduates were least likely to

achieve a first-class degree, with 12.3% doing so.

5. 50.9% of White graduates achieved an upper second-class

degree (2:1) compared with 43.3% of Black graduates.

6. 48.5% of Black entrants go to a low tariff university, whereas
18.4% of Black entrants go to a high tariff university.

7. Research reveals that, on average, senior leaders at Russell

Group universities are 97.6 per cent white, which is less diverse
than the boards of FTSE 100 companies.

8. A higher percentage of Black students than White students

transfer from their institution, or leave higher education

altogether, at the end of the academic year. More Black
students complain about their lack of integration into university

social life relative to their White peers (NUS, 2011:41).

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