Thursday, February 09, 2006

 

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The United Kingdom's race watchdog has instructed some of Britain’s top universities to recruit more black students after “racial bias” was found in admissions practices.

The Commission for Racial Equality says it has collated “alarming” figures from government and academic sources that show “segregation” and a worrying racial divide among the student population in many campuses. The commission is to investigate why universities such as Oxford, Bristol, Warwick, York and Durham are selecting so few undergraduate students from black African or Caribbean backgrounds.

CRE Chairman Trevor Phillips, has ruled out admission quotas to enforce diversity, but he wants to encourage universities to take “positive action”.

A CRE official said:

“If you have a black student and a white student with equal qualifications at the front of the admissions queue, we would want the university to take positive action to choose the black student first.”

Do you agree with this?

Would it change your mind if this were the statement:

If you have a low-income student and high-income student with equal qualifications at the front of the admissions queue, one hopes that the university to take positive action to choose the low-income student first.”

My sense is that it is much more accepted to employ some form of class based equalization than something based on race.

Comments:
So it's better to discriminate against caucasians than other racial groups? Nice!
 
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