The Rise of the Far-Right

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Is comparing apples and oranges racist now?
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Ah yes that brief moment of clarity when shitlibs suddenly understand per capita, when the rest of the year it's a complete mystery to them.

https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/assembly/commission-on-knife-crime-in-black-community

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We know Chairman Lmao's going with the classic Stalinist tactic of letting out all the hardened criminals to make room for political prisoners but I wonder how long before the penny drops in the hand-wringing Left-Wing media that certain persons of a certain religion of peace can't be let out early otherwise there'll be no one left to offer the "warm reception" to the meme-makers and rioters
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[Nobby the Bastard]

You mean the releasing early that the tories were debating prior to the elction due to their mismanagement and was then implimented as policy before the fuhrage riots started?
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A significant number of international students do not speak good enough English to follow a course but are graduating with master’s degrees, academics claim.

They say the “crisis” runs through all types of universities including those in the Russell Group of selective institutions.

In a blog published by the Higher Education Policy Institute, two academics said degrees were being awarded to those without the English language skills to justify obtaining the qualification.

They wrote: “Master’s-level teaching used to be rich, challenging and enjoyable. But now, a master’s seminar in the disciplines that we both teach typically involves a cohort in which three quarters of the students (and often more) are from a single country, a few are international students from elsewhere and one or two are home students.

“On the master’s programmes in our departments, only a very small number of students typically have the English language skills necessary for engaging in meaningful seminar discussions. Increasing numbers of students are not engaged at all in the learning process.”
Classes no longer used high levels of interaction or challenge, they said. “Material must be delivered in a lecture style, and preferably as a written document so that it can be translated using one of the many translation apps (of variable quality) to provide real-time translation of any spoken content.

“Open questions to the whole class are often met with silence, while group tasks are typically conducted using translation apps, before usually the same student from each group is tasked with reading out the answers.

“This can be an extremely stressful and challenging environment for these students, and we try really hard to support them, often by rapidly changing the content and pace of classes.”

The academics said that one-to-one supervision and feedback meetings were “particularly excruciating”, with some students unable to understand simple questions.

Universities have taken much higher numbers of international students in the past decade. They have been heavily reliant on Chinese students and while these numbers are still high, they are being overtaken by those from India. More Nigerian students applied in the past few years but many have been put off this year by tighter visa restrictions on dependants and are also struggling to afford fees because of a currency crisis.

Ucas, the admissions service, said international students are charged an average of about £11,000 a year in tuition fees but that fees can be as high as £30,000. London Business School is charging £115,000 this autumn for its master of business administration (MBA) programme. The tuition fee covers the full length of the 15-21 month programme.

The domestic tuition fee that UK universities can charge domestic students has been frozen at £9,250 since 2017 and was £9,000 for five years before that. The Office for Students, which regulates universities in England, predicted that about 40 per cent will run budget deficits this year.

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/international-students-cannot-speak-enough-english-to-follow-courses-vschfc9tn

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25 years ago when I did my degree, the actual exam was technically an oral exam on the subject in question with a university professor and an external examiner from another university. They decided if you knew enough about the subject to pass or gain a distinction. My finals were actually still in an oral exam format, with 20, 15 minute vivers/practical assessments, two of which were with an external examiner. You had continuious assessment too but that just allowed you to attempt the finals.

The annual written exams leading up to finals were actually called exemption exams, which exempted you from having to do an oral exam. Most people gained an exemption. If you were failing or in the region of a distinction, you would be required or requested to attend an oral exam. You couldn't either fail or get distinction otherwise (failing to attend a pass-fail was an automatic fail, failing to attend a distinction still got you a credit pass). I did one pass/fail oral exam after an abysmal written exam but obviously came across much better in person and talked myself into a pass.

Maybe they should bring back the old style of oral degree exam?
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Mmmm, oral....
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The Open University should be a good marker (seeing as it won't blag you a visa) and I don't get the sense there's a large cohort "going through the motions". Even people pushed onto the course through their job seem enthusiast and engaged with the work
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Ste is your man when it comes to work-arounds
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[Nobby the Bastard]

And reach-arounds, alledgedly.
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Here's a thought on the whole "what even is Right-Wing?!" debate...

Let us define it as "collectivist cultures" vs. "individualist cultures". Collectivism - in its simplest form - being "gather all the resources and apportion them equally" or in other words the half of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" people seem to focus on Individualism - self reliance, "this is mine and you can't have it" etc.

tl;dr Karl Marx versus Ayn Rand, FIGHT!

It occurs to me that "live Right, vote Left" is banded about (by me obviously but also in the world at large) in that we are encouraged to all be special little snowflakes and pursue "our best life" while at the same time being governed by a collectivist State. "Live Right, vote Left" therefore maps nicely onto "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Great, so what?

I wonder what would happen if we "lived Left, voted Right" Consider a traditional family unit: man goes out to work, woman stays at home and looks after the kids.* The money comes in at the end of the month, the bills get paid, the kids get fed. The smallest collectivist unit that is allowed to exist these days, barely tolerated, often denigrate by the State that seems to feel it has sole licence to collectivism.

However, broaden this family unit collectivism out into an intergeneration net, a wider net - cousins and in-laws - neighbours, the whole "village mentality" and you have what the Rest of the World does most of the time. It only works though when the State gets out of the way and doesn't interfere - minimal taxes and bureaucracy.

I think there's a (deliberate) confusion with things that work better at scale, e.g. a centralised health system, implying that *everything* works better at scale (e.g. education) when what you actually end up with is "shit sandwiches for all!"

<addendum> crucially the State can provide for you but it cannot love you.

* "But! But!" oh just fuck off, it's an idealised example.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Basically, if you are going to insist on calling me a leftie and woke, I'm going to call you far right and gammon.

How did the Glasgow protest go for the 'silent majority'?
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[Nobby the Bastard]

You haven't used the 'apples and oranges' argument for a couple of days. Why not spout that one as well?
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Amazing that when I argue for collectivism you get bent out of shape: "No! No! Not that sort of collectivism!"
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[Nobby the Bastard]

It sseems your 'silent majority' are, once again, shown to be a vocal, very small, minority.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20r7wzke97o

Quite frankly when the footie fans are trolling up on the opposite side you clearly dont have the general populous on your side.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Carry on ignoring the facts and remain within your little bubble of reality.
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"ignoring facts" = "not agreeing to my position"

How can I hope to comprehend your position when you refuse to answer even basic questions?
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