Roughly 6% of black British students got a first class honours degree at UK universities in 2011-12, compared with nearly 19% of white British students, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) shows.

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It was a first-class team of industry, government laboratories, and scientists at the leading universities in the country, and everything worked properly.

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In the academic year after launching its first version last November, Lore was used in at least one class in 600 universities and colleges.

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Here at the University of New Orleans and at other colleges and universities in this city, this year's graduating class will be the first class that chose to apply to a New Orleans school after Katrina. (Applause.) Think about that.

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