Oxford University has announced its first scholarship for disadvantaged black British students.
It will be funded by US entrepreneur Arlan Hamilton, who created the Backstage Capital fund for start-ups run by under-represented founders. The Oxford-Arlan Hamilton and Earline Butler Sims Scholarship will start in 2020 and run for three years.
Each successful applicant will have their fees and living costs paid for a three-year undergraduate degree.
Oxford University said it had handed the highest proportion of its places to ethnic minority students in its history in June.
It said 18% of undergraduates were from ethnic minorities, while 61% of students attended state schools.
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One in four teachers 'needed overseas by 2029'
International schools' growth plans face setbacks unless a million English-speaking teachers can be found, expert warns
A quarter of teachers in the UK, Ireland, US and Australia would have to move abroad to teach in international schools each year up to 2029 to meet the sector’s growing demand, an expert has warned.
Liz Free, founding director of the International Leadership Academy at the British Schools in the Netherlands, said: "I have calculated that there are just over 4.5 million teachers in the UK, US, Australia and Ireland, the traditional recruiting countries for native-English-speaking international school staff.