White, private school boys ‘at Oxbridge disadvantage’

WHITE private school boys are the new disadvantaged in the race for top university places, according to a Cambridge don.

Professor David Abulafia, a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, said that culture wars have made ‘white’, ‘male’ and ‘privileged’ terms of disapproval in admissions.

Writing in The Spectator, he recommended removing school names from university application forms to minimise perceived prejudice against the privately educated.

Listing prestigious education backgrounds could risk penalising students ‘for their parents’ choice of school’.

Professor Abulafia said ‘the really disadvantaged candidates are arguably the white males from outstanding independent schools’.

They end up going to Durham, St Andrews, Bristol and other Russell Group universities when rejected by Oxbridge colleges.