Current Events > Universities launch drive to recruit more white males due to low numbers

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/09/universities-launch-drive-recruit-white-males-low-numbers-give/

Universities are setting targets to recruit more white male students after low numbers meant they are now classed a minority group.

Essex and Aston Universities have become Britains first non-elite institutions to write the target into their official recruitment plans, putting white males on a par with Black students and women engineers.

White British students are in a minority at roughly one in ten institutions, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

Meanwhile on certain courses such as pharmacy, business and some science degrees, more than seven in 10 students is from an ethnic minority.

In 2016-17, 27 per cent of the UK undergraduate intake were white males, down from 30 per cent in 2007-08.

Oxford University has previously announced a drive to attract more of the group.

Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), which has released a report on the plight of young men in education, told the Mail on Sunday: 'When putting together our report, we were shocked to find so few higher education institutions had these sorts of targets.

The problem is so evident and we've continued to go backwards.

"Some people oppose this whole agenda - we were told we were wrong to look at gender and should care only about class.

The Institutes report calls for more foundation year courses preparing students for studying a degree as a means of encouraging more young men to apply.

Official figures also point to a growing gender gap in British universities, with 23 out of 149 higher education institutions having more female than male students.

Previous research has indicated that university staff have a mixed reaction to schemes aimed specifically at white boys in case it leads to accusations of racism.

A study led by Kings College London said: We found that people were quite uncomfortable with the idea of running a targeted activity with this group, in a way that we've not encountered, for example, targeting young black African men.

We had quite a lot of people saying.

"This isn't going to be a white-only event, is it?

Essex and Astons initiatives follows a warning by the Office for Students, which regulates universities, in September, that institutions could be punished unless they give a higher proportion of top degrees to black students.

The body plans to set a series of national targets to apply to all universities.

So they're no longer a plurality. What's the big deal?
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I think the large hadron collider really did send us into a different time line.
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Welp

This is going to end terribly
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A_Good_Boy posted...

So they're no longer a plurality. What's the big deal?

How can you have diversity if one group slowly stops going to university?
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darkphoenix181 posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

So they're no longer a plurality. What's the big deal?

How can you have diversity if one group slowly stops going to university?

Where do you see anything about them stopping?
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what's the problem?
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A_Good_Boy posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

So they're no longer a plurality. What's the big deal?

How can you have diversity if one group slowly stops going to university?

Where do you see anything about them stopping?

They are dwindling down past minority status is the implication of the article is it not?
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It's interesting to see all the discomfort from people in academia here based solely on the fact that the very perception of catering to white males carries a racist connotation even when their actual policies apply due to their position as an actual minority.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

what's the problem?

If it ain't white, it ain't right.
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up

Not seeing a problem.
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s0nicfan posted...

It's interesting to see all the discomfort from people in academia here based solely on the fact that the very perception of catering to white males carries a racist connotation even when their actual policies apply due to their position as an actual minority.

This. They spent decades catering to minorities, to the detriment of the majority, and now to attempt to correct the disparity they created, they think they're being racist.
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How about they just stop admitting people based on race?

MARKINGRAM22 posted...

How about they just stop admitting people based on race?

MARKINGRAM22 posted...

How about they just stop admitting people based on race?

Wtf we hate affirmative action now

Watch redcaps like affirmative action now

MARKINGRAM22 posted...

How about they just stop admitting people based on race?

Problem is colleges have argued that diversity is a high ideal that admissions strives to create.

If they don't care about diversity, sure. And then it is argued that the college would be majority asian.
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if you don't give white men concrete accomplishments to focus on - like a college degree or a well paying job or a hot wife - then the only thing they have left to be proud of is being a white man and they've kind of proven it's a toxic mindset
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rikasa posted...

if you don't give white men concrete accomplishments to focus on - like a college degree or a well paying job or a hot wife - then the only thing they have left to be proud of is being a white man and they've kind of proven it's a toxic mindset

Interesting point
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rikasa posted...

if you don't give white men concrete accomplishments to focus on - like a college degree or a well paying job or a hot wife - then the only thing they have left to be proud of is being a white man and they've kind of proven it's a toxic mindset

Being proud of being a black woman or an Asian man or a Jewish woman or an Indian man are also toxic mindsets, because you didn't choose to be born that way.

rikasa posted...

if you don't give white men concrete accomplishments to focus on - like a college degree or a well paying job or a hot wife - then the only thing they have left to be proud of is being a white man and they've kind of proven it's a toxic mindset

yikes, oof, etc.
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Sounds like the system they set up is working as intended
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CornBarn posted...

Previous research has indicated that university staff have a mixed reaction to schemes aimed specifically at white boys in case it leads to accusations of racism.

Any idea what research they're talking about? Or do they just mean an internal survey?
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s0nicfan posted...

CornBarn posted...

Previous research has indicated that university staff have a mixed reaction to schemes aimed specifically at white boys in case it leads to accusations of racism.

Any idea what research they're talking about? Or do they just mean an internal survey?

It reads as if it is an internal survey but I'm not sure.