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British ethnic minorities graduates fail to find employment as easily as whites

Monday 8th February 2010

By Mike Jones

British ethnic minorities graduates are failing to find employment as easily as their white counterparts despite being highly represented at UK universities.

Just 56.3% of BAME students who graduated in 2007-08 found work within a year compared with 66% of White students.

Yet BAME are better represented in higher education than their share of the general population.

Detailed analysis of both the Office of National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey and the Higher Education Statistics Agency’s "HESA Student Record", the report, "Race into Higher Education", sets out how almost one in six (16.0%) of UK university students are from a Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background.

This is up from 8.3% in 1995-96, the year in which Business in the Community founded Race for Opportunity. This increase is virtually in line with the growth in the BAME population from 7.7% of 18 to 24 year olds in 1995-96 up to 14% in 2007-08.

Elite universities Oxford and Cambridge are failing to adequately represent BAME students. Only Chinese and mixed ethnicity students were better represented at Oxbridge than average, whereas those from all other ethnic groups are under-represented.

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