Mister James
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 Posted: 02:21 - 11 Sep 2006  Post subject: WTF is a 'Dignity At Work Champion'?! |
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https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/5327362.stm
So let me get this straight, they already have a higher ratio of Ethnics to Whites than we are led to believe there is in the general population or the rest of the Civil Service, but they have announced that they want to recruit more? Isn't that racist in itself?
And I can't believe an government organisation has the idiocy to name a job title "Dignity at work CHAMPION!!". I bet she doesn't wear her name badge that often.....
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Ofsted promises ethnic diversity
Schools are becoming more ethnically diverse
England's education watchdog is looking to recruit more inspectors from ethnic minority groups.
Ofsted has published guidelines which it says will ensure its staff deal appropriately with schools, colleges and childcarers.
It is also promising more up-to-date records of the achievement of children of different races.
Currently 9% of Ofsted's staff are from ethnic minorities, compared with 8% for the civil service as a whole.
'Strongly committed'
The organisation will be responsible for inspections of children's social care and adult learning from next April.
Jean Humphrys, Ofsted's dignity at work champion, said: "Ofsted is keen to develop and maintain good race relations, as an employer and also as regulator and an inspectorate of education and care providers.
"We are strongly committed to racial equality and fairness for employees, children, young people and learners of all backgrounds and our revised race equality scheme sets out how we intend to promote race equality in all aspects of our work."
Last week, the School Governors' One-Stop Shop charity said it wanted to attract more non-white volunteers to "keep up with a rapidly changing environment" in education. |
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Annabella
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Posted: 10:10 - 11 Sep 2006  Post subject: |
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I'm sure I'm not alone feeling fed up of constantly having to monitor ethnicity in relation to all statistics, I'm fed up of having to tick a box on a 'diversity monitoring form' (in fact I've started to always tick the "rather not say" option), I'm fed up of hearing about 'positive discrimination'.
The only relevance that it should have is when it is an essential part of the job - for example teaching Punjabi. I'm not racist, and I do believe that a teacher should be able to communicate with their class. If their ethnic origin would assist that, then that must be listed as one of the key requirements for the position.
Not just start employing maybe second best for a job because statistically it'll make the education service look more 'diverse'.
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