MFPM wrote: » 'It has found that 16% of Africans living in Ireland are out of work' Indeed but back to those insights, do you have any? What needs to stop, the low level of employment, I completely agree - we should look at increasing the number who are not working, identify why and then try address it, are you with me?
MFPM wrote: » Just 'Africans' or should we go around the unemployed black spots like Ballynanty in Limerick 43% unemployment or Priorswood in Dublin with 36% unemployment or Larchville in Waterford with 37% unemployment - I mean it can't be the 'Africans' taking their jobs can it so what excuse do the unemployed 'natives' have?
" In response to addressing historical situations, most public universities in South Africa were compelled to enrol students in excess of their capacity, resulting in the 'massification' of education with negative effects on the quality of teaching, learning and assessment.11,15 'Access' and 'quality' are mutually reinforcing and form the foundations for the successful transformation of higher education.16 Within a transformative agenda, the Chinese government had vigorously increased access and provided more opportunities for students in higher education. However, students became dissatisfied and began questioning the effectiveness of massification in higher education in achieving quality and in promoting competitiveness in the job market.17 Clearly, 'massification' has repercussions for quality assurance, as regulating standards and guaranteeing quality becomes problematic in the context of growth and globalisation"
"The other is the sheer technical difficulty of providing adequate skills to a large number of persons with little previous educational background. Because of these difficulties, vocational and teacher education in most non-European countries have remained a smaller and less qualified portion of their higher education systems than the traditional ones" "In in spite of obvious needs, public expenditures for higher education have been reduced in many countries both in absolute and in relative terms since the 1980's, due to competing social demands and the budgetary and administrative crisis of the public sector. This dim picture is related to the much broader phenomenon of economic stagnation and social deterioration that has affected most Latin American, African and Asian countries since the 1980's, after the positive expectations of the previous years. There are of course exceptions, most notably in Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and of course Japan) but in none of these cases it could be stated that their higher education institutions have played a significant role in their achievements (universal basic education, on the other hand, seemed to have been crucial)."
"This reality implies that higher education institutions in Africa will have to rely on faculty without the requisite qualifications or part-time lecturers for students’ engagement. Since these part-time lecturers have a primary commitment in their substantive institutions, their services in these part-time institutions are limited both in terms of contact times and quality of contents. Lecturing in multiple institutions most likely lead to limited research output. Available records indicate that Africa produced 2.1% of the world’s academic publication compared with 33.1% by Asia and 32.9% by Europe. This results in the production of half-baked graduates for the African corporate society. "
Inter-University Council for East Africa, in 2014 worryingly found that across Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, well over 50% of graduates were ill-equipped for the workplace. Five new universities approved by outgoing Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan in June have attracted the ire of the academic community, who believe that the resources needed to launch such a large number of new institutions simply do not exist, particularly in terms of faculty. In Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, there are around 50% more students per lecturer than the global average. Many private institutions have cropped up in response to increased demand, but when we see 66 PhDs awarded between 2011 and 2013 by Kampala International University declared invalid (in a country, notably, where fewer than 1,000 people hold doctorates) one might begin to ask if the administrators’ priorities are not a little more Machiavellian than simply increasing access. Private institutions will soon outnumber public in Africa, so this is of particular concern. Indeed, they already outnumber public institutions by four to one in South African, and seven to one in Ghana, while in Somalia all 40 of the country’s institutions are private, according to the aforementioned TrustAfrica/Mail & Guardian report. While they may be improving access issues, there is also a question of what contribution such private institutions will make to research and innovation. Completion rates are another issue – a British Council report shows that a shocking 40% of South African students dropped out in the first year of study. Again, it’s worth reiterating that this is one of the most highly-developed and wealthy nations in the continent.
"Turkey, Iran, and all the Arab states except Lebanon had another feature in common: education to the secondary level in these countries was planned and administered by a central ministry. These ministries were generally characterized by administrative weaknesses that severely handicapped the provision of education. University education could also be the responsibility of the ministry or—as in Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt—of a separate body. Qualitative goals were also difficult to achieve. Financial, human, and physical resources were not able to keep pace with growing enrollments. As a result, the quality of primary and secondary education suffered. Split shifts, crowded classrooms, serious shortages of qualified teachers, and inadequate textbooks and curricula were common problems. The strict examination system used by most countries to determine which students may advance to the next level of education also hurt educational quality. Most experts agreed that the examination system did not provide a valid or reliable indication of student ability. Furthermore, they felt that it reinforced traditional tendencies toward memorization and a rigid classroom culture. Every year more and more students of lower-class backgrounds received a university education, but the entrance examinations tended to limit admissions to the most desirable faculties (medicine and engineering) to students with elite backgrounds. The rising number of graduates with unneeded skills in turn aggravated problems caused by lack of coordination between education and employment needs. Except in the Gulf states, which had manpower shortages, governments faced the difficult task of absorbing poorly prepared graduates into the work force while they tried to find qualified managers, technicians and skilled workers."
Kaybaykwah wrote: » Well, I have to agree with you that that contrived statement is a really appallingly failed construction.
Yellow_Fern wrote: » As I said before, migrants dont take peoples jobs. That is a myth, but what isnt a myth is that integration is really hard. Normally there are pockets of disadvantage no matter where you look. Given how much we struggle to integrate travellers, the chances of integrating people with far more different cultures is poor. years later when the integration fails we get blamed for it and shamed even though there was very sincere decent attempts to prevent the problem.
MFPM wrote: » Do tell why - it's easy to throw around nonsense like 'brainwashed' 'rot' etc they're meaningless....try make an argument.
Slowyourrole wrote: » We can only control our own actions. If other countries don't treat our people well because of their religion/race/nationality that doesn't mean we should do the same to their citizens.
DelaneyIn wrote: » Yes, by deporting them and only let skilled individuals with work permits lined up enter the state.. Why import poverty and more people who are over reliant on social welfare and social housing? That is insane.
jmayo wrote: » The likes of the US was built on multiple cultures, but they quickly learned and set out to indoctrinate kids into things like pledging allegiance to the flag at the start of the school day. They have been relatively successful at integrating people, allowing them keep some of their cultural background, but also buying into the American Dream and American consumerist culture. Yes a lot of groups were first abused and existed in ghettos, but quickly improved themselves and moved on. That happened to the Irish, the Italians, Eastern Europeans, the Jews, etc. Now of course the whole African American issue is a different thing and the way they have been treated has always flown in the face of the so called great democracy that is the USA.
Wibbs wrote: » America was founded and built very much as a White European Christian(predominantly Protestant in nature) nation and culture and has stayed that way for the vast majority of its history, barely acknowledging anything much beyond that, or ignoring it entirely, or subjugating it. While looking in from outside especially as those sidelined minorities bring rightful grievances to bear every so often and currently it's sometimes easy to forget that the US is still today over 70% White European in demographics. Hispanic Americans come next then African Americans. The latter have hovered around the 10-12% of population for the last 100 years plus(it was nearly double that at the height of slavery). Asian Americans are around 5% IIRC. America is still very much a White nation as far as the bald numbers go.
iebamm2580 wrote: » Saw some census lately that white population decreased for first time ever last decade while Hispanics increased substantially as well as African Americans but less of an increase, you would imagine in the next 20-30 years white people will be a minority too.
DelaneyIn wrote: » 2045.https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/14/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/ I don’t see an issue if America becomes a plurality of whatever ethnic group. It was majority non white before! But European countries should never become majority non native. I hope we can all agree on that.
Wibbs wrote: » Again sounds great and is a lofty goal. Sounds great, but show where it has worked. Why are we magically different? How will we avoid the multicultural flashpoints? Education? Hasn't worked so well elsewhere. If anything the fractures between different groups in Europe are getting worse, not better.
Slowyourrole wrote: » What do you mean by worked? It's not a strategy I'm suggesting, it's just what I consider right. You don't benchmark yourself against ****ty people, you do what you think is right. I don't believe it's right to judge people by the countries they come from because if they were happy with the way things were there, they wouldn't be moving out.
Cordell wrote: » That wasn't America though, it was an unnamed land inhabited by, let's say, some underdeveloped people.
Wibbs wrote: » a more cohesive and wilful force
Wibbs wrote: » Not so much underdeveloped, but weaker in the face of better weapons held by a more cohesive and wilful force. India had city civilisations when Europeans were barely out of the trees, but later on it was Europeans in the case of the Dutch and the British who were able to conquer the place.
Cordell wrote: » Yes, there were ancient civilizations that were much more advanced that the contemporary European ones, but not in North America.
iebamm2580 wrote: » https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/when-diversity-training-is-all-about-feeding-racism/ The local county council workers would love a meeting like this in the future.
Deleted User wrote: » Elements of it are already here in Ireland. "Unconscious/subconscious bias" is part of workshops which many HR group will 'encourage' their employees to partake of. Right now, its about how men are subconsciously sexist towards women, but within a short time, we'll probably see similar regarding racial groups. The workshops do pretty much the same thing as your article. It seems laughable but i've done a lot of self-help workshops over the years, and met people who are extremely good at using NLP or psychology to elicit and more importantly establish anchoring states for emotions or even opinions... modern day conditioning....
Bambi wrote: » I had do a couple on diversity and unconscious bias, there is absolutely no legislative imperative behind those topics, it was hilarious stuff, the only time there were sources quoted they turned out to be bull**** surveys or pop books
Brian Hartman wrote: » I tried one of those online 'bias' tests, or whatever you want to call them, for a laugh. Apparently I have a deep rooted prejudice against blacks. Oh well.
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