White Working-Class Students Excluded From Oxbridge Diversity Schemes
1st July 2026
White working-class students are excluded from almost all Oxbridge diversity scholarships, an analysis by The Telegraph has found.
More than a dozen scholarships, bursaries and financial aid schemes are available to Oxford and Cambridge university students based on their ethnicity and not their socioeconomic backgrounds.
While all of the schemes can be used by students from black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, they almost entirely exclude white working-class students, who are one of the most under-represented groups in higher education.