Should Oxbridge discriminate to boost the numbers of black students? Reports last week revealed that 20 Oxbridge colleges failed to offer places to black applicantsNo, says writer and broadcaster Sarfraz ManzoorThis is a deeply flawed, if well-intentioned, proposal. It is easy to cast Oxbridge as the villains in the story. The dominance of Oxford and Cambridge alumni in politics, media, the law and so on is well-known; this week's figures on the starkly low levels of black students merely gave empirical evidence for what many had long suspected. But thinking quotas will improve the lack of diversity is like believing liposuction will solve obesity: it may make a cosmetic difference but for lasting change we need to look a little deeper.I grew up in a family where my father worked on the production line at a car factory and I went to a comprehensive from where less than 10 students in my year even went on to sixth-form college. The idea of studying at Oxbridge was not even a pipe-dream for someone like me, so I never applied and I did not go. A recent report by the Office for Fair Access revealed that intelligent children from the richest 20% of homes in England were seven times more likely to attend a high-ranking university than intelligent children from the poorest 40%. If we want elite institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge to be drawing more students from diverse backgrounds, we need to absorb the fact that the link between economic background and educational attainment is evident as early as 22 months.This hints at what is my main worry about the prospect of positive discrimination for black students. It seems to me that the real failure here is rooted in a lack of class diversity, and black students are merely one of the victims of that. White working-class students are similarly under-represented. The most damning sta レポートは、最後の週20オックスブリッジのカレッジは、黒applicantsNoする場所を提供するために失敗したことを明らかにした、作家、放送Sarfraz ManzoorThisは深く、もし善意、欠陥のある提案であると言います
Tariq Ali: 'Tabloid hysteria made my name a household curse' - video Author and political campaigner Tariq Ali talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about the upheavals of the 1960s, his friendship with John Lennon and 21st-century protestsTariq AliSarfraz ManzoorAlex HealeyMichael Tait
著者と1960年代の激動、ジョンレノンと21世紀のprotestsTariq AliSarfraz ManzoorAlex HealeyMichael Taitさんと彼の友情についてSarfrazマンズールに政治運動家タリクアリ会談
Sounds Jewish: April 2010 With the election campaign now underway, how seriously should we take the threat of the BNP? We hear from Dr Maurice Glasman of London Metropolitan University who's heavily involved in the campaign to thwart the party in East London.We discuss The Infidel – the comedy of ethnic proportions from David Baddiel, charting the fate of a British Muslim who discovers he is, in fact…a Jew. Sarfraz Manzoor has taken the film's premise a little literally – and decided to live for a month as if he was ... Sarfraz Manzoorowitz.And who are the runners and riders for the literary prize they call the Jewish Booker? Jason speaks to Joseph Finlay, one of the judges for this year's Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize.Sounds Jewish is produced with the Jewish Community Centre for LondonPost your comments on the blog below or find us on Facebook and TwitterJason Solomons
選挙キャンペーンで現在進行中の、どのように真剣に私たちはBNPパリバの脅威を取るか？我々は博士モーリスグラスマンロンドンメトロポリタン大学重くキャンペーンイーストLondon.Weの党を阻止するインフィデルを議論に関わっているから聞く - デビッドBaddielから民。比率の喜劇を、英国のイスラム教徒の彼は発見の運命をグラフ、実際には...ユダヤ人である
