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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/feb/20/universities-should-be-punished-for-giving-black-students-lower-grades
Quote from: MSMThe government has recently announced that it plans to improve how black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students perform at university, putting the spotlight back on an issue that has blighted the higher education sector for far too long.
The stark fact is that, according to the latest figures, just 66% of BLAME students achieved a first or 2:1 degree in 2016-17, compared to 79.6% of white students. This is an issue affecting all universities, and requires a deep understanding of the factors involved and a genuine commitment to addressing the gap. There is no quick fix.
If we truly want universities to have a meaningful impact on society, a handful doing the heavy lifting around access and attainment is simply not enough. We need universities to make this a strategic commitment. This means ensuring inclusivity is used as a measure of the quality of our courses.
And if we're really going to close the BAME attainment gap, then we need incentives from the government.
Universities could be recognised and rewarded for their progress through metrics-based exercises such as the Teaching Excellence Framework (Tef), which evaluates universities on the basis of their teaching quality and student outcomes. As it stands, a university could be awarded Tef gold while having no black students attaining a first class degree. That clearly does not reflect teaching excellence for everyone.
While some universities have made good progress in widening access, it is not enough just to get students through the door. We need to get them through their course and enable them to leave with a good degree. By those measures, universities have a lot more work to do.
The Office for Students has vowed to use sticks to drive progress in these areas. In a higher education market driven by academic reputation, the measures by which we assess good performance should also focus on how well we are contributing to a more equal and diverse society.
To achieve this aim, it's important that universities share best practice. Inspiring examples include Hertfordshire's inclusive curriculum toolkit, and Birmingham City's BAME ambassador programme, which is designed to promote a greater sense of belonging among learners and create a dialogue between students and staff.
At Kingston, we have adopted a whole-university drive to address the BAME attainment gap. This starts from the senior leadership team and is a key performance indicator across the institution, including for our development of an inclusive curriculum. If one of our courses doesn't hit our target for BAME attainment, we immediately step in to rectify it.
Diverse learning communities make for rich environments that help challenge what we know and value – this is the essence of good teaching. The new perspectives that students exposed to diversity bring to a question or task is exactly what employers say they want from graduates. A more diverse workforce is sought after by industry, and universities have a duty to deliver that.
Our campuses should be thriving places where students share their experiences and learn from one another. Universities must truly embrace diversity by changing the way they do things to ensure equal opportunities for all students, irrespective of background. This can only be done by properly holding universities to account, and making diversity and inclusivity measures of a quality education.
Is there no place safe it seems from this racist " close the gap" Commie bullsh1t!
Australia tried to close the gap with these unevolved Abos by giving them extra benefits for education and wage sponsorship by the Government if you claim Abo heritage.
This big hullabaloo about Whites displacing them , disrupting their hunter gatherer lifestyle . Make the mining companies pay them royalties.
Why should the UK give blacks and Curries extra rights and benefits? Who are the indigenous people there?
They are a foreign presence who's ancestor's chose to live there.
They need to get off their arses and work just like anybody else to make a living and get the education for that.
Of course Black countries aren't of the caliber of white countries because they are:- Child like, corrupt, hot headed , unreasonable, impulsive and violent!
What do they think they are going to get with extra funding ? Ludwig Van Beethoven ? Leonardo Da Vinci? An Elon Musk?
They havn't had the problems meadeavel people in cold places have had to deal with!
Threats from neighbours with advanced weapons, farming and storing food for the winter, building castles for protection from both the cold and unfriendly neighbours.
No problem solving skills that come with co-operation from others .
Just "Hulk wants, and Hulk gets, if no get ... HULK SMASH".
What is so important about preserving "The Hulk"in your society? ZOG wants a miscegenation agent in the mix to eliminate white People!
Anybody with any sense would send them elsewhere to fend for themselves or be involved in generating power for us somehow.
In the Northern Territory of Australia coons are 30% and in Gaol their population is 86% and people still want to believe race isn't real and it doesn't Matter ?!
Do what? give them free stuff / additional benefits and rights as a consultation prize they neglect and trash and show no appreciation for at everybodie's hard earned expense!
If one commits a crime against you they'll only Gaol them if they have been warned multiple times. You won't see justice. No death penalty here!
The protected species can pinch your car , burn it out get away with all that and good, hard working people leave town because of this coon problem nobody wants to touch because (1) the UN says they are over represented in Gaol and can't breed.
(2) the Coon welfare powers the economy!
The Gaol here is full! They don't have money for more Gaols.
You should see the Hospital! Coons in there for:- Drinking and Drug problems, fights, accidents, Babies, Hygene related diseases!
We don't have money for more hospitals!
They are 2% of Australia's People but look at the ludicrous funding that gets thrown at them to try preserve them and keep them gainfully occupied.
There are stories of Coons murdering and Manslaughtering white guys and getting lame sentences of like 3 years and stuff.
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-05/teenagers-committed-to-trial-over-murder-of-rick-berry-yuendumu/6915856
And look at what this coon got!
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-04/suspended-sentences-over-bashing-death-of-dermody/6280632
A suspended sentence of just over 2 years! For manslaughter!
It wouldn't happen in the US! He could face death penalty!
The Judge seems to pull out an Abo rule book when one goes to court.
That daughter of Rick Dermody has no Dad now and his life was worth what ? A p1ss weak 2.5 year suspended sentence.
The guy was minding his own business only to be hassled by Abos begging for free stuff and when he said words to the effect of " F@ck off !black b@stards!" That supposedly gives them the right for a "chimp out" to manslaughter him ?!
There are people who have got larger sentences here for being cruel to Animals.
The Coons are out of control here and people are fed up with "do- gooders " allowing this free for all.
I have met some older ones who are concerned about this younger generation , ones educated and fed by Christian mission and they themselves don't have an answer for all this.
They used to be allowed to deal with problems tribally like throw spears through a guy's leg but they aren't allowed to do that now apparently.
It's frustrating and I feel whites here will never fix Abo problems. Whites here seem to have gone soft and have adopted a modern British style of Political Correctness.
The way Australia is becoming "Chindia" makes me think in the future Chinks and Indians will fix the Coons though.