CONSERVATIVES might force universities to disclose how many black students they’ve accepted, but lecturers argued yesterday that the measure would be a “pointless exercise” without effective measures to combat institutional racism. 

A new anti-discrimination law proposed by Downing Street this weekend would push institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge to act on accessibility issues. 

But University and College Union (UCU) representatives told the Star that the law would only aggregate data and do little to make institutions more welcoming to black and ethnic-minority students.