Race should not be used as factor in university admissions, US Supreme Court rules

President Joe Biden, medical organisations, and educational leaders have criticised the US Supreme Court’s decision to end “affirmative action”—consideration of race in admitting students to universities and medical schools.1“This is not a normal court,” said Biden on learning that the court had overturned the decades long practice of considering race as a factor in admitting students to institutions of higher learning.2 He said, “The truth is, we all know it, discrimination still exists in America.”Biden proposed a new standard in university admissions that considered the difficulties the student had overcome. He said that he would have the federal Department of Education seek ways to promote diversity in education. He also emphasised that affirmative action did not “allow unqualified students to be admitted ahead of qualified students.”3In the divided United States, Democrats have generally supported affirmative action as an effort to correct racial injustice, while Republicans have attacked it and supported…
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