how white, middle class in Leeds uni?

is this a good or a bad thing? what with the introduction of top-up fees i have no clue about finance for newer students..

I wouldn'tve thought it would be necessary to look at stats for Leeds. Leeds has over 70,000 students living in the city, you would've thought that would've equated to a diverse class representation through that figure alone?

Wow, I really wasn't expecting so much of a debate! I asked because I want to study sociology and, as I pointed out in the sociology talk at Exeter, it would be difficult to study diversity in a supremely white, middle class environment!

I do go to a grammar school but it's nearer to London really than Kent so it is actually very ethically diverse and I just prefer it that way as most of my friends are either not white or middle middle class.

my parents both grew up on bad council estates in Liverpool and worked very hard to try and give me a middle class upbringing (that's a story for another day) Now. This is a situation that could potentially lead to a lot of turmoil but it doesn't because of one crucial factor: PEOPLE ARE NOT DEFINED BY THEIR SOCIAL CLASS AND/OR PARENTS INCOME.

for the record, I just started at Leeds this year and through a series of accidental circumstances have ended up in halls where I would say that, not including the international students, 60 - 80% of the other people living there went to private schools or boarding schools. I come from a very lower middle class background...

for the record, I just started at Leeds this year and through a series of accidental circumstances have ended up in halls where I would say that, not including the international students, 60 - 80% of the other people living there went to private schools or boarding schools.

similarly the cities have areas which are densely populated with/concentrated with ethnic minorities. (leeds= roundhay, greater manchester= oldham, birmingham = small heath).

I very much presume that you're thinking of somewhere else as Roundhay is probably the most prosperous, white, middle-class, Aston Martin owning, 7-bedroomed house area of Leeds, before you get out to the real outskirts like the Golden Triangle.

Some parts of Roundhay merge with Harehills. But the one thing i notice when i go back to Leeds is how mixed the supposed 'Asian ghettoes' are. The 7/7 bombings have led the media to characterise Leeds as a British Asian problem city. Yet nothing could be further removed from my own experiences of growing up there.

It's more Oakwood next door that's a mixture between a bit posh and getting seriously sketchy towards Harehills and Chapeltown though, surely. And regardless, of all the many pooholes of Leeds to choose from, you certainly would never think of Roundhay!

I very much presume that you're thinking of somewhere else as Roundhay is probably the most prosperous, white, middle-class, Aston Martin owning, 7-bedroomed house area of Leeds, before you get out to the real outskirts like the Golden Triangle.

Well no, it can't emphasise any point if it's wrong, but never mind.

^^^agree with the above; but some cities (and universities)are comparable to some extent??

league tables at bham.leeds and manc are more or less similar.
the inner city schools do just as crap as each other. similarly they all have their local famous public schools (MGS, LGS, KE). similarly the cities have areas which are densely populated with/concentrated with ethnic minorities. (leeds= roundhay, greater manchester= oldham, birmingham = small heath). similarly they all have affluent middle class areas (usually situated in the outskirts).

birmingham city has it's fair share of ethnic minorities and this is reflected at the local red brick campus. alot of the asian students at bham uni are from bham and commute.

manchester city has it's fair share of ethnic minorities and this is also reflected at the local red brick university. alot of the asian students commute from manchester and greater manchester to uni


yet leeds can't attract the local asian students (one doesnt encourage positive discrimination on grounds of race, only on grounds of income) from roundhay or bradford.

someone started a similar thread on the sheffield uni page. check it out.

maybe when (UK born) asian and black students visit the uni they notice the campus is predominantly white and middle class and run a mile cos they're worried that they might feel like an outcast/have trouble making friends? i don't know. i've noticed that ethnic minority groups do cluster together with fellow minorities 80% of the time (be it for whatever reason)

yet leeds can't attract the local asian students (one doesnt encourage positive discrimination on grounds of race, only on grounds of income) from roundhay or bradford.