article_snippet: The professor of education at Cambridge University called for further measures to ensure more students from disadvantaged backgrounds were admitted.
article_snippet: Figures released last year showed Oxford has the lowest proportion of state school pupil entrants – 57.4 per cent – of any university in England, once small and specialist higher education institutions are excluded.
article_snippet: At Cambridge, 63 per cent of undergraduates admitted were from state schools.
article_snippet: In 2013, 25.4 per cent of white students applying to Oxford won a place.
article_snippet: The success rate of Bangladeshi and Pakistani students was under seven per cent, while black Caribbean students had a 14.3 per cent conversion rate and Black African students a 13 per cent success rate.
article_snippet: At Cambridge, black Caribbean applicants had a 24.3 per cent chance of success compared to 29 per cent for White applicants.
article_snippet: The figure for black African students was 9.2 per cent, and Bangladeshi and Pakistani students 13.8 and 13.6 per cent respectively.
article_snippet: A Cambridge University spokesman said extensive efforts were made to encourage more applications from black and minority ethnic backgrounds and that such students represented 16 per cent of the intake, which is in line with national population trends.
article_snippet: ‘Success rates are influenced by prior school attainment, our entry requirements and the combinations of subjects studied by applicants,’ A Cambridge University spokesman said.
article_snippet: ‘Data shows that ethnic minority admissions to Cambridge reflect national trends once prior school attainment has been factored in.
article_snippet: Choices relating to subject of study and location of university also have a substantial bearing on entry rates by ethnic group.
article_snippet: Just under a quarter of all Oxford students of known ethnicity are from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.