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Social Policy Briefing on our black student research

This week's entry in our series of Social Policy Briefings is on our research into black students' experiences of further and higher education.  You can download it here.

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Published: 17 Sep 2010 17:47 , Last updated: 20 Sep 2010 10:17
 
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