More students are winning university places in every demographic of the UK – except for white males. Figures show that the number of white men getting on to degree courses has fallen almost ten per cent compared to 2014. As a result, just 13 per cent of white working-class boys go on to higher education. It said that universities were failing to set goals to boost the numbers of white working-class students and, most controversially, that the increasing use of the term ‘white privilege’ in debates about inequality could be divisive. ‘I have seen the real distaste and disdain of academics for the mores of the white working-class male.

Source: Daily Mail September 11, 2021 21:01 UTC