Education: Our Disappearing Black Stars It's Not Just Women Who Seem to Be Underperforming at Cambridge, Ethnic Minority Students Are Too - despite Being Equally Well Qualified When They Arrive. Why? Patrick Leman Unpicks the Curious and Unsettling Results of His Research

Leman, Patrick, The Independent (London, England)

The relatively poor academic performance of women undergraduates at Oxbridge has been a cause for concern for some time. At the end of their studies proportionately more men achieve the top (first-class) marks while more women achieve second-class marks. Recently the University of Cambridge funded a large-scale exploration of some of the social factors that might relate to differences in academic performance among undergraduates.

The study analysed the finals results of all Cambridge undergraduates in 1997 and 1998. These revealed that not just gender but also a student's ethnic origin and school background have an influence on the marks they achieve. It also emerged that …

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Publication information: Article title: Education: Our Disappearing Black Stars It's Not Just Women Who Seem to Be Underperforming at Cambridge, Ethnic Minority Students Are Too - despite Being Equally Well Qualified When They Arrive. Why? Patrick Leman Unpicks the Curious and Unsettling Results of His Research. Contributors: Leman, Patrick - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: August 19, 1999. Page number: 18. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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