Dissect, ways of looking: white Brit pupils least likely to go to uni

The first in hopefully a series of articles that looks at what is really being said. The premiere

piece? 'White British pupils least likely to go to university, says research' by The Guardian.

Image: via The Guardian

I came across this Guardian article on Twitter. And with such a click-bait tittle, how could I resist?

The article exposes that people of ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to attend university compared to their white counterparts. Now, I'm not sure who this article was really supposed to be informing/surprising but it definitely did not surprise me.

It seems somewhat obvious that non-whites were encouraging their children to go to university or were pushing themselves to attend university. It's a hard-knock world out there and most importantly, it's a hard-knock-white-man's-world So getting a degree or going for further education seems like a clear way to get ahead.

Non-white parents are obviously preparing their children for the concept of white privilege, but this excerpt really irked me:

“Recent research by university admissions body UCAS also found that teenagers from ethnic minorities are less likely to get an offer from a top university because they are more likely to apply for the courses and institutions that are the toughest to get into. It found these young people were more likely to aim higher in their applications than their white peers.”

It would have been more truthful to say that really these kids would have to be bestowed with almost supernatural gifts to be considered/ accepted into these universities.

It would be nice to think that we live in a world where circumstances, like class, race, gender , religion and education weren't also defining factors to that statistic.

Simply put: non-white uses education as a cutlass to sweep away any doubt about their competency and to get away from racial prejudices, whereas white British students don't need to.

Click here, to read The Guardian article.