BNP Manifesto 2010 : Education for a British Future * The BNP will reverse the budget cuts on education and prioritise this sector as vital to the rebuilding of our nation. * The BNP will bring back traditional syllabi and teaching methods to replace the | current and obviously failed systems currently being used. * […]
Continue Reading BNP Manifesto 2010 : Education for a British Future
David
Re. Comment April 23rd, 2010 at 16:47
Heard and understood and it sounds like we share some common ground. 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.
As for equality, as a person with severe paralysis [spinal injury, wheelchair user] my disability support was supplied by a guy with dyslexia supported by an African guy whose first language wasn’t English! – Equality should be ‘the right person for the right job’… I wouldn’t apply to be a fireman! Equality is misguided and based on Political Correctness not common sense.
My local area already had a thriving Pakistani/Indian community, within the past 10 years the area has seen a massive increase in immigration, much to the displeasure of many in the established Asian community. Moreover, you can pick any day to wonder into the City where approximately 35-45% of people wondering around are Non-British… how is this helping the economy?
I lived in America for 2 years and experienced first hand that ‘multiculturalism’ means people diverse of origin, culture and religion living in separate communities in an effort to maintain some form of identity. However, in America, it’s the communities that fund their own interests, not the taxpayer, which brings me back to Labour and how 13 years of inept Government in appropriation of funds have thwarted my every effort to rehabilitate, re-educate and work to support myself and not be a burden on the taxpayer.
It appears to be the opinion of the Labour Government that it’s easier to pay benefits rather than promote re-education and employment, with the exception of using cheap labour from overseas and EU.
Well I’ve voted now, whether its considered a vote for me, a tactical wake-up call or just utter disillusion at mainstream political abuse of power.
View Comment
“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
View Comment