White working class students are barred from applying for almost all diversity scholarships at Oxbridge, it has emerged.
More than a dozen financial aid schemes for under-represented groups at Oxford and Cambridge prioritise ethnicity over socio-economic background.
It means that while all the schemes can be accessed by those from ethnic minorities, almost all exclude white working class students.
This is despite this group being one the least likely to attend university.
It comes after an independent inquiry found this week the education system is not set up to serve white working class youngsters, who have the weakest educational results of any major ethnic group
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