Weeks after the news first broke out about Black students more likely to have their university applications flagged for potential fraud or errors than any other ethnic group in the country, UCAS still don’t have any meaningful solution or explanation for it.
Read the news below when it first broke on April the 24th –
Figures shows: Black people in UK are 21 times more likely to have university applications investigated
UCAS says it does not know the reason for the discrepancy as its software “does not look at personal information such as name, address or ethnicity”. well that i did not believe. i use myself as an example, my UCAS application was flagged up being a black applicant then and i was put through some emotional trauma, i thought i wasn’t good enough until much later when i got another letter which eventually cleared my application and i was allowed to pursue my program
The admissions service has studied applications that were flagged between 2013 and 2017 and more than half were from students from black backgrounds.
Data from UCAS’s verification service shows that black applicants made up around 9% of all university applicants in that period. They also comprised 52% of those whose applications were flagged. This figure is staggering and embarrassing for a nation that claims to be tolerance, fare and transparent. A nation that prides itself in equality and justice for all.
How can they even try to justify the figures which don’t lie. How could you possibly
ustify when blacks applicant makes 9% of the total university application and 52% of that small number will flagged up on UCAS perfect unbiased system as fraud.
In contrast, white students made up of staggering 73% of total applicants and low and behold accounted for 19% of flagged applications. How could UCAS justify such system as perfect and that it does not look at name and ethnicity before flagging up applicants
Asian students were 11% of the total and 16% of those flagged.