La storica università è accusata di “discriminazione anti-bianca” per il controverso nuovo progetto di abbassare i requisiti di ammissione per i candidati asiatici britannici | Posta quotidiana in linea
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15732835/Historic-university-accused-anti-white-discrimination-controversial-new-scheme-lower-entry-requirements-British-Asian-candidates.html
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What is the implication of this university’s opinion of South Asians if it apparently doesnt believe they can meet the same standards as everyone else?
This was posted on another sub. It seems that they have various positive discrimination programmes in place, for women, races, socio-economic backgrounds etc. It’s not just British Asians.
lol that doesn’t make any sense at all
East Asians or South Asians all do very well educationally; there’s no real need for positive discrimination here
The list of things I agree with the “anti-woke” Mail-reading brigade on is a short list, but I do have to concur that this constant obsession over demographics in both the workplace and uni admissions is ridiculous. Just don’t be bigoted and the fair representation will organically occur.
The ‘anti-white discrimination’ allegation seems slightly forced here. That said, white working class students have very low university admissions compared to other ethnicities so universities really should be running schemes specifically for working class whites. Maybe some are that I’m not aware of to be fair.
>It is promising ‘a guaranteed, alternative offer (typically two grades lower)’ to state school pupils of ‘Asian heritage/descent’ who take part in a free summer school with accommodation, travel and food provided.
>Durham says the Asian Access programme, being run for the first time this year, ‘aims to support students who are typically underrepresented in higher education and particularly at Durham’.
I can support this. They’ve seen an issue with applicants of British Asian, and they’re offering some sort of training course to give this group the chance to reach higher education. Its not a handout, its an opportunity. They have to work for it and earn it.
I find it dumb they bundle demographic groups like this.
British Chinese typically do much better than British Bengalis in academia for example. If anything being so broad just indirectly makes it more racist at the fear of being racist.
Also what happens if someone is half Asian out of curiosity? My kids are half Asian would they benefit from this?
Maybe rather than targeting people by skin colour we should focus on class ? Judging people by there skin colour is inheritly racist anyway.
Saving you outrage clicks:
– Durham has low proportions of asian *UK* students. A majority of Asian students at the uni are international
– this scheme is open specifically to students who attend a specific summer school
– Durham is in the North East, where Asian heritage people accounts for less than 7% of the population
– contextual offers are not even remotely unusual. these get offered to people from lower socio economic backgrounds all the time, and it’s also not unusual as a way to redress a demographic’s underrepresentation at a particular uni
– Durham is a very posh and very white university. Honestly, anybody who goes to Durham and sees the student demographic there and goes ‘yep, anti-white racists’ needs their head examined
Anti-university screed with a side of racism. Pure unfiltered culture war nonsense
Close all universities and let’s all work the fields. Problem solved.
Entry requirements should only be lower if the student was a top performer in a shitty high school. That shouldn’t have anything to do with race.
Durham the racist university opens to diversity. What is wrong with it?
This is called corrective discrimination or positive discrimination. It’s because Asian people or people from marginalised communities are already disadvantaged. So by giving them an advantage they’re actually equalising the playing field so to speak.
Without it people from marginalised communities would not have the same opportunities and we’d effectively be back in the 1950s.
Should be based on kids on free school meals and kids who went to comps with bad outcomes
I mean that’s literal discrimination right there.
People would be absolutely up in arms if it was reversed, and the entry requirements were **higher** for British Asians.
People understand working class participation programmes but can’t when it’s not about white people.
Anyone read the article to discover the actual truth behind this story, yet?
It’s usually buried somewhere near Paragraph 14.
Imagine being stuck in a group with a couple of people that dont understand the topic and cant contribute. Why should someone else’s grades suffer because others aren’t clever enough to gain the necessary grades?
Durham wants in on that foreign student fee charging gold mine
Enjoy the 2:2’s
I am a student at this university. My college is literally based in the castle in the picture. Got in on a contextual offer and am now scoring firsts. I can corroborate everything said in [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1sm31cx/comment/ogb4kj8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), the North East is an incredibly white region and Durham is an especially white university. I spend a lot of time seeing friends in Newcastle and York, which (admittedly anecdotally) seem to have a lot more foreign students than Durham does.
When I was a Cambridge offer holder, I met a lot of other prospective Cambridge students. Despite being the less prestigious institution, Durham *genuinely* feels posher and whiter than Cambridge and Oxford.