The New Observer, June 6, 2018

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Speaking in an interview with the Daily Telegraph newspaper, [“British” Universities Minister Sam] Gyimah — who was born in Britain but spent most of his youth in Ghana — said that the administration of the two famous universities had made a “staggering failure” by not admitting more black students, and that “colleges must look beyond exam results to improve diversity.”

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He said they had “not done enough” to improve admissions rates of black students and urged them to “take into account a broad range of factors”, rather than focusing purely on academic results.

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His comments come after new data emerged that at Cambridge, six colleges failed to admit more than 10 black or mixed-race students in five years, while St Edmund’s College failed to make a single offer.

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Gyimah warned the two universities to “reconsider,” as there were now “very hard levers” available to the university watchdog, the Office for Students, “if the universities fail to change their ways.”