British engineering schools restricted colonial students from popular courses even with acceptance letters.

Evidence

Electrical engineering was my chosen field of study at the University of New Brunswick, where I received a BSc EE in 1960 and was awarded a Lord Beaverbrook Overseas Scholarship that took me, all expenses paid with a living allowance, to Imperial College, in London, England, for 2 years. There I intended to specialize in solid-state circuit design, capitalizing on the recent invention of the transistor. When I registered, I was stunned to hear that, due to high demand for the course, students from “the colonies” were denied access, even though I had a letter of acceptance. I was 22, alone in a foreign country, faced with finding something else to study, probably changing my intended profession, or go home. It was a test of my resolve. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 61

Categorization

• XREF: Historical detail on colonial exclusion connects to broader empire/postcolonial literature the reader keeps (e.g. Naqvi’s Home Boy’s immigrant experience). — connects to: Colonial education aimed to limit subject aspirations by withholding surplus skills; Colonial bureaucrats systematically restricted evolue access to jobs, army, and elite schools — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 533; Colonial education aimed to limit indigenous aspirations rather than expand them — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 720
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Colonial education aimed to limit subject aspirations by withholding surplus skills; Colonial bureaucrats systematically restricted evolue access to jobs, army, and elite schools — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 533; Colonial education aimed to limit indigenous aspirations rather than expand them — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 720