The reason universities take in so many international students is because that get in more money.
I won't open the can of worms the statement 'accident of birth' suggests - suffice to say it's not a statement I feel ought to be used when describing someone's colour.
) but unless you get the full picture, you could be - at best - solving a problem that may well not exist, or worse, creating a problem that need not have been made.
Yep, I can't really blame them, the whole system is set up to maximise income rather than deliver taxpayers a good education for their kids.
its an accident of birth that I'm a white, British person, I don't feel it's a loaded statement, but if it is interpreted as such, I'm sorry.I won't open the can of worms the statement 'accident of birth' suggests - suffice to say it's not a statement I feel ought to be used when describing someone's colour.
My job deals with this kind of thing all the time. I work as a Lead Business Analyst, and am forever needing to challenge people's assumptions on what makes valid business sense because they highlight one or two bits of data and build a case around it. When we look at ALL the data, their assumptions do not always stand up. That's the problem with statistics, you can make an argument for anything (even leaving the EU
The article does address some of that, but there are still gaps. Unless we get a really good picture as to why there are less applicants, and why the applicant's colour or finances do (or do not) have bearing, then it's going to be difficult to resolve unless you set universities targets and quotas - both of which being in a problem that's arguably worse than the one we may be looking at today. There'd also need to be an adjustment for geographical bias.
I'm not by any means saying that there isn't a problem, just that we'd need to understand a lot more than we do now about why it may exist and what the aggregated causes are.
Some similarities, though I don't do much analysis (others do that, exhaustively) rely on experience and instinct, one of the few benefits of age. Of course I am wrong most of the time, but they still pay me, out of pity I guess.I've worked for a number of companies across Financial, Services, Logistics and Manufacturing. Most of the work involves IT systems (because I've never yet met a C-level exec who doesn't think that a problem can't be solved by a new bit of software) but increasingly I'm being drawn into business process change management and analysing new product plans to validate that they are going to make the money the business sponsors claim - answer tends to be pretty uniformly "no, not quite that much..."
If my work background leads me to dive into detail and try to explain - or push people for reasons why they have stated something - that probably explains why I've chosen to opt out of the EU referendum thread. Too much like the day job....
.....and, from my liberal elite perspective, their appallingly bad taste. Criminal in multiple senses.
Green looks like he gets all his clothes from TopMan (fine for skinny teenagers and twenty somethings) as well as owning it. But I bet they are incredibly expensive designer stuff, albeit dubious aesthetically, which just look like tat as soon as they are placed in his ample flesh.
Difficult to take too seriously -pink is not right colour for his skin tonethe way Izzard went for Farage about where his parents came from. Suggesting he had no right to complain about mass immigration. Know how you feel Nig. I get the same on here from a Dub taxi driver
One day this 'them and us' approach to everything will be gone, but I don't think I'll see the day.....
