INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY AT UNIVERSITY
Diversifying the University of Durham Speaking for the 93% We are the 93% Club Durham. We are the UK’s least exclusive members’ club. A members’ club to rival some of the country’s most exclusive and expensive clubs. At the 93% Club Durham, we aim to represent the interests of state-educated students. We account for 93% of the national student population, but only 61.6% of Durham University’s student population. Stateeducated students, therefore, face exceptional inequality when it comes to obtaining opportunities at our university and in the workplace. These findings ultimately reaffirm that more needs to be done to ensure that Durham University more accurately reflects the wider UK student body. The 93% Club Durham endeavours to lead the way on social mobility, and we aim to directly build a working relationship with the university. In the future, it should be expected that state schoolers receive more offers from the university, given that we account for 93% of the national student body. Our vision is to create a hub for state-educated students. We want the 93% Club Durham to be a springboard for successful careers, and the lives of selfassured individuals, with all the tools to achieve big things in society. We want our community to be shaped and motivated by their state school background, not held back by it. We currently boast 828 members and endeavour to increase this figure over the following academic year. We are delighted to announce that we won the ‘The 93% Club
Halle (President) and Etta (VP) at the award ceremony.
Outreach Award’ in August. This award is hugely symbolic, as it celebrates the 93% Club Durham being the largest 93% Club in the UK, at the university with the highest concentration of privately educated students in the UK. We exist to dismantle the class inequality that exists in the UK today through the power of community. By bringing together hundreds of likeminded individuals from our university, we are breaking
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down the structural barriers to social mobility and building a future that is fairer for the next generation. We don’t believe that “the system” is broken. We think “the system” works. It works incredibly well for the people it was designed to serve. We consequently endeavour to build a replica system. A system for those without such immense levels of social, cultural and economic capital. We want to take the very system that is creating social immobility and
