{"id":2125,"date":"2015-08-21T15:49:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:05","slug":"does-racial-discrimination-occur-in-british-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/08\/21\/does-racial-discrimination-occur-in-british-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Does racial discrimination occur in British Universities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent reports have raised disturbing questions <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dro.dur.ac.uk\/14964\/\">Exploring ethnic inequalities in admission to Russell Group universities.<\/a> <\/strong>Boliver, V. (2015) (available free via Durham University- forthcoming in the Journal Sociology) considers why ethnic minority students are less likely to be admitted to Russell Group universities than white students.<\/p>\n<p>Also this week<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hefce.ac.uk\/pubs\/year\/2015\/201517\/\"> HEFCE released a report<\/a> which considered race, sex, ethnicity , age and the REF. It founded marked gender imbalances. 67% of men were selected, compared with 51% of women.\u00a0 Black and Asian UK and non-EU nationals also had statistically significant lower selection rates.\u00a0 The full data and methodology can be downloaded from the website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent reports have raised disturbing questions Exploring ethnic inequalities in admission to Russell Group universities. Boliver, V. (2015) (available free via Durham University- forthcoming in the Journal Sociology) considers why ethnic minority students are less likely to be admitted to Russell Group universities than white students. Also this week HEFCE released a report which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,15,9],"tags":[221,236,55,75],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-management","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}