Universities are setting targets to recruit more white male students after low numbers meant they are now classed a “minority group”.
Essex and Aston Universities have become Britain’s first non-elite institutions to write the target into their official recruitment plans, putting white males on a par with Black students and women engineers.
White British students are in a minority at roughly one in ten institutions, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
Meanwhile on certain courses such as pharmacy, business and some science degrees, more than seven in 10 students is from an ethnic minority.
In 2016-17, 27 per cent of the UK undergraduate intake were white males, down from 30 per cent in 2007-08.
Oxford University has previously announced a drive to attract more of the group.
Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), which has released a report on the plight of young men in education, told the Mail on Sunday: 'When putting together our report, we were shocked to find so few higher education institutions had these sorts of targets.
“The problem is so evident and we've continued to go backwards.”
"Some people oppose this whole agenda - we were told we were wrong to look at gender and should care only about class.”
hdevprogrammer on December 10th, 2018 at 20:48 UTC »
Well minority doesn't mean "non-white" it's literally supposed to mean a smaller group. Makes sense.
mucow on December 10th, 2018 at 20:16 UTC »
So the article is for the UK, but I think it's worth mentioning that a lot of colleges and universities in the US are actively trying to recruit more male students. Many liberal arts colleges want to maintain a particular gender ratio which is becoming harder to do as male applicants to smaller colleges has been declining. They have found that if their gender ratio becomes too skewed, it becomes more difficult to recruit students.
A few years ago, my alma mater got flak because 2/3's of applications were from women but in order to maintain a 50:50 gender ratio 2/3's of acceptance letters went to men because men were more likely to turn down acceptance. They eventually gave up on trying to maintain the gender ratio because it was becoming too problematic.
Snazzy_Serval on December 10th, 2018 at 19:43 UTC »
I went to a college in Southern California where white students made up 18% of the population. I have no idea how many white males students there were. Though the population is 44% male.
Anybody want to help math me?
Edit:
Thanks for the maths
7.9% white males.
Yeah that'a a minority.