White children are the group least likely to go to University

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"Of youngsters educated in the state sector, 64% of Asian students and 62% of black students went on to higher education in 2012-13, compared to just 45% of white students."

"Asian students are the most likely to study at a top-flight university, with 12% going on to a Russell Group university – including Oxford and Cambridge – compared with 11% of white students and 6% of black students."

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That is shocking. These days, it is this group who are most under pressure due to competition from Eastern European migrants and so their income is hit hard. Hence the rise of UKIP and the like. It is something that needs to be addressed.

The general plan is to educate into higher skilled employment. But there is clearly more to do.

Sorry, but generalisations like that are really unhelpful. You've not got any evidence for it and at best it's an unsubstantiated, racially based assertion.

Work ethic innit

Does it matter that I'd include myself? Ok I admit it is a massive generalisation but certainly in my experience British culture is one where everyone seems to think the world owes then something (and look at me I'm begining to sound like a Tory) and I would also comment that as people from Asian backgrounds are seen as smart the are likely to be pushed more and thus get better grades in like a self-perpetuating loop.

How does competition from migrants have a greater effect on white students than those of black or Asian origin?

The point I was making is that the people who have not pursued more advanced academic study (this includes diploma, even skills like City & Guilds quals) will face more competition in the marketplace from migrant workers. This affects black or Asian kids as well as white kids in this group.

There is an effect where immigrants or more recent immigrants seem to have a greater motivation to study and are more progressive in this way. Possibly to over-compensate for a perceived disadvantage in the labour market by working harder. In addition, it is feasible that anyone who has made the effort to cross countries or even continents would tend to be more motivated than the norm.

I get what your saying, it's just too big a generalisation. It's like saying black people are really violent. Sure, you can pull out the figures showing them more likely to be convicted of violent crimes, but it completely ignores why this happens or why their driven to violence on a somewhat larger scale. Similarly, white people are not inherently lazy just because they have lower average academic achievement levels. I wouldn't argue that there's systemic bias against them, but you can look at explanations like:

Greater likelihoods of growing up in single-parent families
Less cultural importance placed on academic education, and more on vocational skills (I would be interested to see figures for numbers of apprentices by race)
More resistance to £9K tuition fees, due to elder relatives who went to university for free or substantially reduced rates, as compared to those from backgrounds with no prior experience of higher education or from countries where it is not as widely available and affordable as it is in Britain.

For me, taking a complex issue like this and reducing it to "whites are lazy" doesn't look at how it can be changed and just pushes a stereotype instead.

"Of youngsters educated in the state sector, 64% of Asian students and 62% of black students went on to higher education in 2012-13, compared to just 45% of white students."

"Asian students are the most likely to study at a top-flight university, with 12% going on to a Russell Group university – including Oxford and Cambridge – compared with 11% of white students and 6% of black students."

You can read the full article here.