Thread by @sundersays

Who goes to university in Britain today? Higher education places, by ethnic group. (As share of 18 year olds from state school)?

(I wonder what % of national journalists would guess this right)

Asian 47%
Black 41%
Mixed 34%
White 29%

ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/education-skil…

Those stats don't include the privately educated. But wouldn't change much as ethnic mix of private education & state education in UK is now v.similar - about 1/3 state school and 1/3 private school pupils. Private schools may be a tiny bit more diverse
isc.co.uk/media-enquirie…

Obviously, *within* each ethnic group there can be significant differences by social class, income, geography & other factors

Ethnic minority Britons are now a bit more likely to have uni degrees than white Britons (rare, comparatively), partly because of a younger demographic.

Takeaways

Need an agenda that combines class, race, gender
+ Need to think about different opportunities/barriers for different cohorts

eg school exclusions, crime, justice
eg: jobs & chances for non-graduate 50%

eg mix of local uni/Russell group places
eg graduate recruitment

This story of rising education across generations, is a really crucial foundation of the "opportunities widened, while expectations rose faster" story of race in Britain for the 3rd+ generation of black & Asian Britons: cf my generational paradox on race

conservativehome.com/platform/2020/…

2017 piece on why the race disparity audit offers an opportunity to integrate race and class, across minority and majority groups
telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/1…

All groups are advancing but at different rates. Blog from

https://twitter.com/shortthought/status/1283055331627667459

longerthought.blogspot.com/2020/06/a-grea…

Should I be able to surprise much of Twitter with something true for a few years, a few weeks into a big national race debate?

We now have vg ethnicity data in this country. I'm never sure some basic contours yet known by commentators in media/politics?
ourothernationaldebt.com/race

A 2015 blog on why the educational pattern makes this an important "tipping point" - or a moment of disillusion and frustration if there isn't faster change in the workplace too
britishfuture.org/articles/great…

White British students make up a bigger share of students at more prestigious/harder to get into universities
ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/education-skil…

https://twitter.com/russellhaggar1/status/1283075076041199616

Thanks @russellhaggar1 for this data on free school meals, gender and ethnicity

This is who is in HE/FE at age 19
earlhamsociologypages.co.uk/education%20da…

"High Tariff Higher Education" (prestigious unis) by White, Mixed, Asian, Black, Chinese.

Here white boys and girls on free school meals, then black boys & white boys more generally are less likely to get to these institutions than other pupils

Data
earlhamsociologypages.co.uk/education%20da…

My take on why this important story of educational success over the last decade is now a v.important argument to ensure we see change in the workplace keep pace too

easterneye.biz/race-to-end-wo…

Some infographics on intake for universities (2017)

Those are from the University of Oxford, whose web-page on this is unusual in its clear presentation of facts

ox.ac.uk/about/facts-an…

If I'd known tweet was going to engage so many people, I'd have labelled the top tweet more clearly.

They are the % of students from each group who get an HE offer. Most (3/4) students are white British - because largest group of 18 year olds, though lower rate of participation

Quick thread on policy challenges and key areas for responses in schools, higher education and workplace which arise from this data of educational success

https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1283301727173775361?s=19