Another thing to consider is that the UK as a whole not being 99% white is a recent development of the last four or five decades. At least in the first few deca

Another thing to consider is that the UK as a whole not being 99% white is a recent development of the last four or five decades. At least in the first few decades most immigrants were working class and so you wouldn't expect their offspring to be proportionately represented at university level for socioeconomic reasons. So I would argue the disparity is more of a socioeconomic access one than a racial one.