Yesterday, British Prime Minster, David Cameron, berated his alma mater, Oxford University, for the fact that “only one black student attended the university last year”. It turns out that he was wrong, and Oxford was quick to correct him, In fact, one undergrad from the UK was black; but 41 (I have also seen a [...]

This month has seen a fair amount of media coverage on the fact that David Lammy MP has discovered more than twenty Oxbridge colleges made no undergraduate offers to black students, last year. There are many reasons why I find this statistic disappointing – although not necessarily surprising. However, what it has really made me [...]