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Nationally in higher education there's a lot of focus on outcomes, the 'attainment gap' (or degree awarding gap, or opportunity gap) between white and BAME graduates getting 2.1/1st, for example. It isn't often broken down at a more granular level and the whole thing of lumping everyone who isn't white together in one statistic often feels clumsy.
Smaller scale studies (individual institutions) show black students are most likely to leave before finishing, and the attainment gap is marked even when comparing across same economic background and previous attainment. That always throws people who are hoping they can put the outcomes down to wider societal or schooling issues, making it someone else's problem.
They also show the worst stats for entrants when looking at a combination of ethnicity and economic background are white students from the most deprived backgrounds, who seem to be coming to university less and less.
Would be interesting to know how much this varies across different institutions and areas of the country, like that school report. I know that one of my unis has a worse than average gap - with majority of students identifying as BAME (not sure if it's majority of staff but it's a lot too), whereas unis where BAME students are a small proportion they have a smaller than average gap - is it a self-selecting bias where if you're persistent/good enough to make it in, you tend to do well, or is there something else to it?