An Overview of Blacks in British Higher Education From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: April 30, 1998| Author: | Copyright CH II Publishers, Inc. Apr 30, 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

An Overview of Blacks in British Higher Education

THE UNITED KINGDOM, unlike the United States, does not have a long recorded history of the progress and status of blacks in higher education. Until very recently most British universities did not ask prospective students to state their race or ethnic origin on college application forms. As a result, there is no historical data to document the early progress of blacks in British higher education. It was generally assumed that admission to British universities was based exclusively on merit and that blacks and other minorities had an equal ...

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