Claim: Higher education in this country is blindingly white.
Fact-check: Higher education: a white, middle-class affair? - Full Fact
Verdict: in the uk in 2016/17, 74% of uk students in their first year of an undergraduate degree were white. among 18 year-olds in england, white pupils are the least likely of any ethnic group to take up a place in uk higher education.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joël Reland
Date published: 2018-05-25T00:00:00