Headline: Universities [in the UK] must give more top degrees to black students, under new proposals by regulator

Universities could be punished unless they give a higher proportion of top degrees to black students, under new proposals drawn up by the regulator… If institutions fail to comply with the regulator’s new “tougher” national targets for increasing the number of disadvantaged students, they could be penalised through a fine or even de-registered.

Play along with the new quotas, or lose the ability to award degrees.

Blacks in the UK did not, ever, have the same difficulty as blacks in the US. It is those difficulties which, to many, justify “affirmative action”, i.e. gift giving to blacks because they are blacks. “Cut ’em a break: they’ve been through a lot. Besides, it’ll help ’em catch up, and then we can forget all these ‘racism’ crap.”

Didn’t work out that way. Did it?

So why would the UK’s ideology bosses think affirmative action would work there, when the only reason for giving blacks gifts because they’re blacks is because blacks haven’t performed well academically?

Answer: you’re a racist.

Mr White (in somewhere-well-north-of-Yorkshire accent): Say, Mr Black, what’s that shiny new thing you’re holding?

Mr Black (in posh London accent): That’s my new degree.

Mr White: Ah, right, then. I heard about that. They’re giving blacks degrees because they’re black.

Mr Black: Hold on. That’s racialist. I earned my degree.

Mr White: Did you, though? I see. But how do I know you earned it? The Office for Students specifically said that if the proportion of degrees awarded to blacks didn’t “improve”, that unis would lose their charters. How do I know you’re one of the few who passed on his own merit? When we know many are given an advantage by some quaking administrator just because they’re black?

Mr Black: It is racialist to even think this. I’m surprised at you.

Mr White: Well, maybe you’re all right. Maybe not. But at least some blacks who would have been tossed, instead of being tossed, are walking out holding degrees just like you have. How can I tell which black was given a gift and which not?

Mr Black: I stick by my accusation that you’re a racialist.

Mr White: Hold on. Maybe I’m thinking about this wrong. Maybe you are all right, and all blacks are all right. I mean, maybe all blacks with degrees did pass their exams and whatnot according to the old standards. Maybe the standards weren’t lowered for blacks.

Mr Black: I’m glad to see you’re—

Mr White: —Maybe all blacks passed at the old rates. But then maybe standards were raised for whites.

Mr Black: I don’t follow, old boy.

Mr White: Well, if you are forced by ideology czars to increase black degree rates, there’s only three things that can be done. One, make it so that whites perform worse or that blacks perform better academically. And there’s no evidence that happened, on average.

Mr Black: Like the OfS said. Blacks are at a disadvantage.

Mr White: Two, lower standards for blacks while keeping the same standards for whites. If you lower standards for blacks to match their average academic performance, then they’ll be awarded degrees at the same rate as whites. But you say that didn’t happen with you.

Mr Black: Rather not.

Mr White: Number three: keep the same current standard for blacks, and raise it for whites. Make it much harder for them to graduate. You can tweak the standards so that, again, you get the same graduation rates for blacks and whites.

Mr Black: Brilliant!

Mr White: But that doesn’t solve our problem. Because who then—which group, I mean—would be the better class of graduates, whites or blacks?

Mr Black: I was wrong. You’re still a racialist.

Perhaps the best summary to the article is provided by somebody calling himself SW Stokie, given on 7 Sep 2018 10:20AM:

The whole thing is a shambles now any way. When I did mechanical engineering in the 70’s it took 4 years including industrial placement time to gain practical experience. Today’s super intelligent students can complete the course in two years. Are you telling me they are all twice as clever as the engineering students of the 70’s or perhaps the standard of the Degree has been diluted. In the 70’s you needed a degree to become a member of the engineering institutions and to acquire chartered engineer status. These same institutions now demand a masters degree to allow entry and to acquire chartered status. What does that tell you!

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