For the 4th year in a row, White Males are disadvantaged at university. Claims UCAS

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Elsewhere, 18 year old women were more than a third more likely to enter than 18 year old men.

This means the gap between the White ethnic group and all other ethnic groups continues to widen, and that those from the White ethnic group remain the least likely to enter HE.

For 18 out of the 26 subject groups, more women than men were accepted. Within certain subject areas significantly different ratios between men and women exist, the most contrasting of which are Education, with over 6 women for every man, and Computer sciences, with over 6 men for every woman accepted to study.
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The last one confirming the 'Females prefer people orientated jobs and men things orientated jobs' Psychological theory.

Another report from UCAS here

Since 2006, former state school pupils recorded as being in the Chinese ethnic group consistently had the highest entry rate, while since 2007, those recorded in the White ethnic group consistently had the lowest.

In 2017, the entry rate for the Chinese ethnic group was 63.0 per cent, a proportional increase of 3.6 per cent on the previous year. The entry rate for the Asian ethnic group was 45.8 per cent, the second highest of all ethnic groups, and 3.8 per cent higher than in 2016.

The entry rate for the Black ethnic group was 40.4 per cent, an increase of 3.2 per cent on 2016. The Any other ethnic group had a similar entry rate of 40.1 per cent, an increase of 5.7 per cent.

The Mixed ethnic group has an entry rate of 34.0 per cent, the second lowest entry rate of all ethnic groups in 2017, but an increase of 2.0 per cent on the previous cycle. The White ethnic group had the lowest entry rate of all ethnic groups of 29.3 per cent, and also the smallest proportional increase of any ethnic group this year, increasing by 1.5 per cent.

These patterns meant that the proportional gap between the White ethnic group and all other ethnic groups increased in 2017.

In 2017, 18 year old women were over a third (36 per cent) more likely to apply to HE than 18 year old men.

In 2017, application rates for men and women both increased to their highest recorded values, with 44.0 per cent of women, and 32.5 per cent of men applying through UCAS.

This difference in 18 year old entry rates between men and women equates to 37,780 fewer 18 year old men entering higher education this year than would be the case if men had the same entry rate as women.

48 per cent of young women from the UK now enter HE by age 19, compared to 37 per cent of young men
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The White ethnic group continues to have the lowest proportional rate of progression to higher education, and the gap between this group and all others widened slightly this year.
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So here we have another year and another report highlighting the issues surrounding White Males at university.

Here are previous years reports:

Young women are a third more likely to apply to higher education than young men.

“Amid encouraging patterns of demand from mature and disadvantaged students, there remains a stubborn gap between male and female applicants which, on current trends, could eclipse the gap between rich and poor within a decade.

“Young men are becoming a disadvantaged group in terms of going to university and this underperformance needs urgent focus across the education sector.”
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2014 report

Urgent action is needed to boost the number of boys applying to university to stop them becoming a “disadvantaged” minority, according to Mary Curnock Cook, the Ucas chief executive.

Young women are on average a third more likely to progress to higher education, Ucas statistics show. In some parts of the country, that number increases to 50 per cent.

“It means there is something like 32,000 young men missing from university.”

Ms Curnock Cook called for a "laser focus" on the issue of fewer boys going to university than girls.

She said: “My concern is in five or ten years’ time young men will be the new disadvantaged group. I remain astounded that there is not more political and societal focus on this."

The gender gap is most pronounced among pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. Boys who live in the poorest 20 per cent of areas or who receive free school meals lag furthest behind girls in university admissions.

The figures will fuel concerns that white working class boys are under-achieving at school, with worse exam results than many other groups.
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2015

Mary Curnock Cook, UCAS (UK Higher Eduction Admissions System) Chief Executive said today: "Girls are doing better throughout primary, secondary and higher education than boys; poor, white boys are the most disadvantaged group in entry to higher education and the gap is getting bigger.

"The focus on White working class boys in the Higher Education Green Paper as part of the wider aim to widen university participation from all under-represented groups is a really important signal of change.

“But no amount of outreach by universities will work if boys are still too far behind when they come out of secondary education.”
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2016
 
I await the call for 'positive' action from feminists (the keep claiming that they are all for 'equality') and SJW's in general for consistencies sake?....

Perhaps we could have a political debate so some of the usual cabal of mp's can roll their eyes in derision when the subject of men's situations are discussed? (they can then go onto claim some Internet trolling makes them the innocent victim)

Perhaps the BBC could wheel out that Munroe Bergdoff character to explain why this is all down to white people (mostly men) being somehow uniquely prone to violence above and beyond all the other 'races'
 
this is for universities as a whole... including "universities" that advertise on the side of buses etc...

you might well get a different picture if you were to look at just the top universities etc..

I suspect that white working class males are still happy to go into trades etc...
 
So what should we do the solve this problem, OP? Reduce/scrap university fees? Bring back EMA? Encourage white working class boys in some other manner?
 
What could be wrong with that, if your lucky enough to get in then your going to swamped by Ladies... Just don't do an art course where you end up in debt for nothing, engineering, business or science fields are the only smart choices these days.
 
ChroniC said:
What could be wrong with that, if your lucky enough to get in then your going to swamped by Ladies... Just don't do an art course where you end up in debt for nothing, engineering, business or science fields are the only smart choices these days.
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White men aren't falling for the eternal debt trap. If you haven't got the chops for a proper university degree with good job prospects then you're much better off moving into a skilled trade.

Getting a middling grade in Criminal Psychology or some other fancy course will leave you with nothing but a £30k debt and a job at Starbucks.
 
LabR@t said:
Don't matter, as long as non whites are getting help to make a success of it.
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Well, it's been noted as an issue and they'll focus on it.

The focus is on white males from poor backgrounds. Proportionally there are more working class families from a white background than there are from non-white backgrounds. The barriers might not be the same for people from e.g. minority ethnic backgrounds compared to people from working class backgrounds (they're not).
 
Raz said:
Well, it's been noted as an issue and they'll focus on it.

The focus is on white males from poor backgrounds. Proportionally there are more working class families from a white background than there are from non-white backgrounds. The barriers might not be the same for people from e.g. minority ethnic backgrounds compared to people from working class backgrounds (they're not).
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Why don't they get proportional help then, all the programs are directed towards minorities.
 
Tunney said:
So what should we do the solve this problem, OP? Reduce/scrap university fees? Bring back EMA? Encourage white working class boys in some other manner?
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Helping remove the stigma around white males at university will help. Stop spreading the myth that white males are oppressors, rapists and beneficiaries of white privilege and start bringing people together, rather then driving them apart.
 
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