Professor Vikki Boliver vikki.boliver@durham.ac.uk
Professor
This article analyses national university applications and admissions data to explore why ethnic minority applicants to Russell Group universities are less likely to receive offers of admission than comparably qualified white applicants. Contrary to received opinion, the greater tendency of ethnic minorities to choose highly numerically competitive degree subjects only partially accounts for their lower offer rates from Russell Group universities relative to white applicants with the same grades and ‘facilitating subjects’ at A-level. Moreover, ethnic inequalities in the chances of receiving an admissions offer from a Russell Group university are found to be greater in relation to courses where ethnic minorities make up a larger percentage of applicants. This latter finding raises the possibility that some admissions selectors at some Russell Group universities may be unfairly rejecting a proportion of their ethnic minority applicants in an attempt to achieve a more ethnically representative student body.
Boliver, V. (2016). Exploring ethnic inequalities in admission to Russell Group universities. Sociology, 50(2), 247-266. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515575859
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 24, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | May 12, 2015 |
Publication Date | Apr 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Mar 24, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 31, 2015 |
Journal | Sociology |
Print ISSN | 0038-0385 |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-8684 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 50 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 247-266 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515575859 |
Keywords | Ethnicity, Fair access, Russell Group universities. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1434979 |
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Boliver, V. (2016) 'Exploring ethnic inequalities in admission to Russell Group universities.', Sociology., 50 (2). pp. 247-266. © The Author(s) 2015. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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