The Supreme Court of the United States ruled yesterday that race can no longer be considered as a factor in university admissions. ‘The student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual – not on the basis of race’, said Justice Roberts, writing for the majority. Universities, he said, ‘have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the colour of their skin’.
