UK: Whitewashing Education

Creating a New Underclass

by A. Millar

Corroborating what many reports have already shown, a government-commissioned study published by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, has shown that http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3650 than their peers from ethnic minority groups.”

The study found that while 66 percent of Indian, 65 percent of Chinese, and 43 percent of Black African, only 23 percent of White males in Britain intended to study at university. Only those who classed themselves as Black Caribbean or Black other were less likely to attend college. Concern that this situation is leading to the creation of a White underclass, and to increased support for the BNP, has already been voiced, and The Times has, again, raised this specter, saying:
 
“The difference between races is most pronounced among men from deprived households and suggests the emergence of an underclass of white working-class men who risk being locked out of higher education and marginalized over jobs.”While the Labour government has consistently played down, and even attacked especially English http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=48, the report may well provoke more rethinking of that disastrous policy.

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2008-06-20