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Students from ethnic minorities are still under-represented at the UK's elite universities, research suggests. Both Oxford and Cambridge are still recruiting fewer black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) students than the average in other universities, according to a study by the Race for Opportunity campaign. Just over one in 10 students at each of the two institutions (11.1% at Oxford and 10.5% at Cambridge) had a BAME background. Across the country, almost one in six UK university students (16%) were BAME in 2007/08. Oxford University would have to recruit 44% more students from BAME backgrounds to reach this average. Students of Chinese or mixed ethnicity were well represented at both universities, but fewer students were of Indian, African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage. There are seven times fewer Black or Black British Caribbeans at Oxford than there are on average at other universities, the report shows. The research is based on an analysis of the Higher Education Statistics Agency's (HESA) Student Record for 1995/96 and 2007/08 and the Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey for the same years. The report reveals that across the UK, the number of BAME university students has risen from 8.3% in 1995/96 to 16% in 2007/08. These figures are broadly in line with growth in the 18-24-year-old BAME population. But while British ethnic minorities are now better represented in general, at the 20 leading research-intensive Russell Group institutions this representation is "unbalanced", it concludes. - Agencies Related Articles:
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