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► Black Students

Why do we need a Black Students campaign?

1. There are only 15 Black MPs in Parliament, but if the numbers of MPs reflected the amount of Black people in Britain today, there would be 55 MPs.

2. Black students face discrimination throughout education: despite higher achievements on entry, they leave school with lower grades and are more likely to be excluded. They face discrimination in admissions to elite Universities and are awarded lower marks where anonymous marking is not implemented.

3. Research by the DFES found that Black students are less likely to get a first class degree when all other factors are equal. Discrimination is rife in education.

4. Research has also found that more African-Caribbean students study at one University – London Metropolitan – than the top 19 institutions combined.

5. Annual top-up fees of £3000.00 introduced in 2006, burden Black students with decades of debt as Black graduates are 4 times more likely to be unemployed than white graduated so get saddled with debts for longer.

6. The number of pupils excluded on the ground of racist bullying has risen by 29% since 1994.

7. African-Caribbean boys are 3 times more likely to be permanently excluded from school, than white children for misdemeanours of similar severity.

8. Black children are 5 times less likely to be considered ‘gifted or talented’ compared to white children.

9. Black communities are 3 times more likely to become statutorily homeless than the majority white population.

10. African-Caribbean people are 14 times more likely and Asians 6 times more likely, to be stopped and searched by police than white people.

11. In 2004/05 there were approximately 179,000 racially motivated crimes. Since 1999, after the Stephen Lawrence Report, racially motivated crimes have steadily risen.

12. Almost 10% of mental health inpatients are African-Caribbean or mixed-race, despite making up only 3% of the general population.

13. Black people are up to 44% more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act but are less likely to be referred by their GP than white people, a significantly high percentage instead get referred through the Criminal Justice System.

14. In 2004, Black workers earned an average of £7.50 per hour, compared with £8.00 per hour for workers from white background. This gap has been increasing since 1998.

15. Within six months of graduation, Black people are 3 times more likely to be unemployed than white graduates.

16. Within 5 years of leaving college Black students can expect to be earning 9% less than their white peers for the same standard of work.

17. 18% of men and 15% of women graduates who are Muslim are unemployed – this is 2 times the rate of their Christian and Jewish, without religious conviction counterparts.

18. 75% of the Black community live in 88 of the poorest boroughs across Britain.

19. Job applicants with an African name are 25% less likely, while those with a Muslim name are 18% less likely to get an interview than those with a British sounding name.

20. There are no Black women police chief constables and there are no Black women judges in the House of Lords or Courts of Appeal.

21. Babies born to immigrant Pakistani mothers in Britain are more than twice as likely to die in their first week as the babies of British-born mothers.

22. Rates of suicide among young South Asian women are double that of the general population.

23. On average, Pakistani and Bangladeshi women earn only 56% of the average hourly wage of white men.

24. Less than 1% of college principals are Black and there is only 1 Black University Pro-Vice Chancellor.

25. Black staff are more likely to be cleaners than lecturers at Universities and colleges.

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