As a black student, I know why our grades are worse: universities don’t listen to us | Adesewa Esther Adebisi
Black, Asian and minority ethnic students are less likely to get a top degree than white students. This must end
It might sound dramatic, but I have often likened my experience of hearing about how black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students do worse than their white peers at university to the five stages of grief.
There was the initial shock and denial that there could be any discrepancy between my white student peers and myself in achieving a first or upper 2:1 class degree. Surely this gap would vanish if entry requirements, subjects, and socio-economic backgrounds were all accounted for?