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Surely It Is Not Only Potential Black Students, Who Come From Lower-Performing Schools And Live In Areas Of Relative Socio-Economic Deprivation?
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http:// www.tel egraph. co.uk/e ducatio n/2016/ 07/19/o xford-c ollege- to-incr ease-in take-of -minori ty-stud ents-fo llowing /
/// Figures showed Oxford took just 27 black undergraduate students two years ago, as campaigners called for the ‘decolonisation’ of the curriculum. ///
/// Students will only be eligible for the extra places if they are expected to achieve the university’s standard conditional offer for the course to which they have applied, if they come from a lower-performing school and if they live in an area of relative socio-economic deprivation, it added. ///
/// Figures showed Oxford took just 27 black undergraduate students two years ago, as campaigners called for the ‘decolonisation’ of the curriculum. ///
/// Students will only be eligible for the extra places if they are expected to achieve the university’s standard conditional offer for the course to which they have applied, if they come from a lower-performing school and if they live in an area of relative socio-economic deprivation, it added. ///
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Nonsense.
You're extrapolating.
This is what the piece says:
[i]Figures showed Oxford took just 27 black undergraduate students two years ago, as campaigners called for the ‘decolonisation’ of the curriculum.
You could not possibly know whether these figures are driving this move, or that it's causing the university concern.[iThey are simply figures. They could have been looked up by the journalist writing the story.]
You are playing the race card again.
I suggest removing that chip on your shoulder. It's affecting your vision and cognitive abilities.
Nonsense.
You're extrapolating.
This is what the piece says:
[i]Figures showed Oxford took just 27 black undergraduate students two years ago, as campaigners called for the ‘decolonisation’ of the curriculum.
You could not possibly know whether these figures are driving this move, or that it's causing the university concern.[iThey are simply figures. They could have been looked up by the journalist writing the story.]
You are playing the race card again.
I suggest removing that chip on your shoulder. It's affecting your vision and cognitive abilities.
Even supposing it were all about trying to boost the number of minority students, it is hardly "at the expense of white students" if the college is looking to achieve this by expanding the number of available places to start with. This doesn't take away any places already available (and, as the piece concedes, these places almost entirely go to white students). So this "black students instead of white students" thing is crap. It's "black students [i]as well[as] white students".
sp1814
/// Seriously - click on my name, then click on yours and get back to me on who plays the race card most frequently. ///
I do not play the race card, it is just that I am not scared to criticise ethnic minorities, when they are in need off criticism.
Whereas when I do you then take offence enough to play your race cards in their defence.
/// Seriously - click on my name, then click on yours and get back to me on who plays the race card most frequently. ///
I do not play the race card, it is just that I am not scared to criticise ethnic minorities, when they are in need off criticism.
Whereas when I do you then take offence enough to play your race cards in their defence.
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