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Originally Posted by Carth
I think many who have a nice safe & clean job in an office environment (no offence intended to those who do) have a slightly skewed view of some things.
The majority of BAME people looking for work will be nothing like the 'graduates' you're probably used to seeing in and around that sector.
Many probably come from the 'poorer' sectors and, like anyone from a 'working class' background, will be struggling to find anything above minimum wage employment in areas such as factories, hotel work, shops, etc . . in which they, and eastern Europeans, are usually well represented.
If the Gov't and other parties want a higher representation of BAME in roles requiring higher education, they need to make that education available at no cost to the families who can barely afford to live . . . but that then introduces a surge of non BAME into the system too - catch 22 yet again  |
How many are achieving A level standard? Student loans cover the further education costs for them, and everybody else.
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- 13.0% of students got 3 A grades or better (including students whose ethnicity wasn’t known)
- 25.7% of students from the Chinese ethnic group got 3 A grades or better – the highest percentage out of all ethnic groups
- 5.5% of Black students got 3 A grades or better – the lowest percentage out of the 6 aggregated ethnic groups
- 11.2% of students with Mixed ethnicity got 3 A grades or better – this was followed by White students (11.0%), students from the Asian ethnic group (11.0%), students from the Other ethnic group (10.2%)
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Education to A level is free. Afro-Caribbean is even lower at 3.4%(only Roma/Traveller is lower). So Chinese have a 7.5 to 1 advantage, and White kids have a 3.2 to 1 advantage. Black Africans can manage 6.1%, so it can't be racism in any way.
That's before you get into numbers. 131,947 White is always going to outnumber 10,475 Black.