The US Supreme Court has overturned the practice of considering an applicant’s race during university admissions.
The ruling ends decades-old US policies on so-called affirmative action, also known as positive discrimination.
It is one of the most contentious issues in US education.
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Affirmative action first made its way into policy in the 1960s, and has been defended as a measure to increase diversity.
The cases heard by the justices concerned admissions at the Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, UNC.
