Labour MP attacks university where one in three colleges failed to admit a black British student with A-levels in 2015•Nearly one in three Oxford colleges failed to admit a single black British A-level student in 2015, with the university accused of “social apartheid” over its admissions policies by the former education minister David Lammy. Oriel College only offered one place to a black British A-level student in six years. Similar data released by Cambridge revealed that six colleges there failed to admit any black British A-level students in the same year. A handful of black British students – an average of 3.5 each year between 2010 and 2015 – who do not have A-levels gain places at Oxford. Data released by Oxford after the Guardian’s inquiries showed three further black students with other qualifications were offered places at Oriel.

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2017 20:00 UTC