Some British universities have become remarkably racially diverse
Good grades, high expectations and reluctance to travel explain why
Black and Asian undergraduates were rare in the mid-1980s, when researchers working on an official report on race and education turned up to interview them. The students told sorry stories of off-putting teachers and careers advisers. An Afro-Caribbean student remembered expressing a desire to train as a lawyer, only to be advised to take a job in Woolworths, a now-defunct retail chain. Another student was advised to work in agriculture because his father came from rural Pakistan.
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