Who speaks up for poor white boys when it comes to their education?

[barryqwalsh]

David Cameron can be a frustrating figure at times. He wrote an article for the Sunday Times this week in which he drew attention to the under-representation of disadvantaged students in Britain’s universities, which he was quite right to do. But he is wrong about the ethnicity of those students and wrong about where the problem lies. It’s working-class white boys who fare the worst, not black boys, and when it comes to broadening access, the track record of our tertiary education sector is pretty good. It’s state schools that could be doing more.

First, a few facts.


Who speaks up for poor white boys when it comes to their education?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Cameron has no interest in helping poor people in any field.