The gap between the number of black students achieving the highest grades at university and their white peers is still too high, England's higher education regulator has warned. The Office for Students (OfS) said that black students were less likely to be awarded a first or upper second-class degree than white students at all but one of the 97 universities and colleges analysed. However, overall, the attainment gap between black and white students - the difference in those securing a top degree - has closed from 24.7 percentage points in 2015-16 to 18.3 percentage points in 2019-20. Chris Millward, OfS director for fair access and participation, said the attainment gap between black and white students 'remains far too high'. He said: 'At 96 of the 97 higher education providers for which the dashboards report ethnicity attainment gaps, black students' attainment is lower than we see for white students.

Source: Daily Mail March 11, 2021 19:45 UTC