“However, my perspective of University was different, I shared classes with people

Comment on BNP Manifesto 2010 : Education for a British Future by David.

“However, my perspective of University was different, I shared classes with people from minority background who manipulated ‘equality and discrimination’ to attain extensions on deadlines and switch courses as and when they choose.”

I was on a course called Molecular Genetics in Biotechnology at the University of Sussex. I believe it was the first year for the course and about a dozen people were on that particular degree (genetics was still relatively new). We were mixed in with dozens of other science students studying similar degrees, but only about a dozen students did that degree.

From memory there was:

Me, white, born in England, I was a mature student (in my early twenties).
White lad from England.
White girl born in England.
Turkish man (mature student) : he didn’t believe in Evolution which was a bit weird for someone studying genetics. Introduced me to naan bread which we still eat (really nice food).
Black girl from Mauritius, introduced me to brown sugar from Mauritius, chief export of Mauritius was sugar back then :-)
White Russian woman (mature student) : like me she had children.
British born girl with dark skin, from memory I think her parents were from Pakistan (but not 100% sure, it’s been a while and I really didn’t care about her ancestry).
Forget the rest, but the above were the people I tended to work with on projects etc…

I saw no evidence of the non-white students taking advantage of discrimination issues. For example the mature student from Turkey wasn’t up to the level of work at the end of the 2nd year (failed exams) and had to drop out. Reasonably confident the rest finished their degree.

I literally couldn’t sit the final exams (all I had to do to get a degree was sit 21 hours worth of exams) and I was offered 15 minutes extra time in each exam! The problem was sitting, I didn’t need more time to sit, I literally couldn’t sit in a chair for more than 15 minutes!

Today I’d have probably finished my degree since I could have done my work on a laptop lay down, I wasn’t fast at typing back then, there’s no way I could have typed an entire exam in 3 hours!

I’m sure there are plenty of people reading my site who have gone through University or are currently at University who also have seen no evidence of what you talk about Harry.

David