Always ready to show a level playing field.

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/2ufjt84

Always ready to support ethnic minorities, the Daily Mail today reports on the unbalance of Black students into Oxbridge collages, yesterday it was reporting Pizza World for presumed racial discrimination with it's customers.

/// The picture is slightly different when it comes to students from other backgrounds with 77 students of Indian descent accepted.///

Although no Black students were accepted 77 students of Indian decent were.

Why is this?

[joggerjayne]

Is an "Oxbridge Collage" a bit like the Bayeux tapestry ?

[jackthehat]

Ask the collages (sic).............

[Zeuhl]

Will this Oxford collage be entered into The Turner Prize?
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[joggerjayne]

Maybe that's enough digs at AOG's typo ?

[ChuckFickens]

I prefer the Birmingham mural.

[miacat]

Errmm....because the students (regardless of racial background) who were accepted had better applications/interviews/academic qualifictions??? Call me old fashioned.......

[jackthehat]

We haven't even mentioned 'decent', yet, jj......

[Lou_Lou26]

Oxbridge as is oxford and cambridge i assume? is the acceptance rate proportionate to the level of applicants from these groups?????

i'm betting we dont have that data.....

[miacat]

Good point Lou...

[joggerjayne]

JTH ...

If we're going to get picky, then ...

... "it's customers" ... is a bit painful, too.

But maybe we should move on.

[DTCwordfan]

agree with miacat

and isn't it imbalance not unbalance, AOG.........

As at the Secret Policeman's Ball - the acronym Norwich means "Nickers off ready when I come home."
"But Nickers is spelt with a K?"
"Yes I know that, I did go to Oxford, you know."

[miacat]

DT - priceless!!!!!

[anotheoldgit]

Yes let's all have a dig at AOG's typos 'college' and 'descent', most amusing indeed :0)

But not very constructive answers to the point in question.

[miacat]

Ooooooh, SOMEONE got out of bed the wrong side.....people are just having a giggle AOG. Some of us answered but we've yet to hear YOUR opinion?

[DTCwordfan]

all depends on the number of applicants and then the quality of their c.v. and results, plus most collages (sic) interview their candiates. What was the ratio on the Chinese?. Plus there are scholarships etc for ethinicity - for example the Swire Group (Cathay Pacific) fund a scholarship, equivalent to a Fulbright or Rhodes, and very valuable for the successful candidates out of Hong Kong and China.

I was a non-Swire exec on the team for interviewing - we had candidates with wonderful grades - the issue was finding a noteworthy candidate who could really think about issues and then take leadership and personalisation in their position - this is what you seek in an outstanding candidate....and in HK, it was a big issue as the education was geared at cramming the brain with every last bit of information, to the cost of being able to think clearly.

[miacat]

<miacat's jaw dropping to the ground at the depth of DT's knowledge on the subject>

[sp1814]

There's a reasonable answer in the article. A disproportionally high number of black applicants apply for popular (and therefore oversubscribed) courses.

[miacat]

What were they? Just out of interest?

[DTCwordfan]

well I didnt go to Oxbridge but know enough folk who have been there/work there. Went to uni at a certain ancient Scottish equivalent not too far from you, mia....

[miacat]

Then I guess you're better qualified than SOME people to give an opinion on this matter DT! ;)