Investigating the Relationship between Ethnicity and Degree Attainment

 A critical review of the use of ‘broad ethnicities’ currently used to determine differences in degree attainment.

Research investigating the apparent relationship between ethnicity and degree attainment has failed to shed any further light on these relationships.  We have developed a model based on the re-aggregation of HESA statistics in our attempt to identify where we might improve the degree attainment of all students whatever their ethnicity.