Evidence isn’t required to support any assertion, and certainly not that one. Employers use their judgement. Currently I’d be pretty wary of any recent Cambridge, Oxford, or Bristol graduate presenting themselves for employment.
Then it’s just prejudice (if you don’t need evidence) !
I’ve seen many recent Cambridge computer science and engineering graduates and there’s no problem with them. They have all been excellent. CAn’t comment on Oxford or Bristol (this used to be the undisputed #3 university 30 odd years ago, but seems to have slipped in the rankings if those mean anything) or other subjects.
I’ve heard standards have dropped and it’s like limbo dancing under a twenty foot bridge. Personally I blame…anyone I can think of at the time but mostly America
Science graduates seem to be relatively free of this ridiculous’Woke- Lack of Moral Fibre (LMF) nonsense.
However it has permeated the Arts/Humanities world to a terrifying degree.
Perhaps we should abandon Arts/ Humanities as a complete ‘waste of rations’.
At best it is merely vocational, at worse, downright seditious.
Yes. The Truss and forthcoming De Santis or Trump administration should withdraw all student loans funding for non-STEM courses.
If you want to buy one of those, pay for it yourself. Or see if you can borrow the money at commercial rates, though the banks – unlike the muggins State and perennially ass-r*ped taxpayer – will need convincing that you might one day earn enough to repay them, and with a worthless degree in Gender Studies, you won’t.
If we agree the the literal meaning of the word as, “pre-conceived prior to evidence” then yes, that’s exactly what it is.
I would view such applicants from a starting point that they might have been inculcated with some prejudices of their own, that would be detrimental to the business. I would hope to be proved wrong. But that would be the starting point.
It is the same when interviewing anyone from the public sector. You know what the problems may well be, before you meet them. But you give it a go – it would be silly not to. Hunches (a better word, I think) are not always right – but quite often they are.
It “isn’t fair” I know. But fortunately, when I was young, no one was stupid enough to tell me that the world is, or should be, fair. So I grew up free of the crippling handicap of hope that it might be fair.
Farewell Cambridge!
The glorious days of ‘Porterhouse’ are finally ended. “Dives in Omnia”.
JP Martin
1 year ago
It’s difficult to imagine anyone worse than Stephen Toope, but she might yet prove herself his equal.
Aaron James
1 year ago
The Fasci* t Left is letting us peek behind the veil……what an evil woman
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Tony Sandy
1 year ago
Intelligence doesn’t equate with censorship (limited thought equals limited intelligence). I lived in Cambridge once but don’t hold that against me. I had a friend who went to Fitzwilliam college but I only worked (once and briefly) at Trinity Hall as a porter. I have also watched Miami Vice, once. Does this qualify me to be vice-chancellor? Personally I think Professor Tempest should have got it but who cares what I think and Hugh isn’t saying.
Glyn R
1 year ago
Why was the woman given this important role? Her stint at Princeton could hardly be a recommendation. There is something rotten going on.
Julian Pellatt
1 year ago
Another North American import into the UK to add to a relentlessly expanding list that includes BLM, Mark Carney, identity politics, misandry, CRT, bubble gum, Stephen Toope, etc..
Another North American. Why ? Do we really not have British people who can do this ?
Apparently, you have a shortage of idiots. We are glad to get this witch out of the US.
And the Brits are voluntarily accepting her! Our gain in getting her out of the US is Britain’s loss.
The facts must faced: Graduates from institutions like this are no longer the best and the brightest.
What is your evidence for this ?
Evidence isn’t required to support any assertion, and certainly not that one. Employers use their judgement. Currently I’d be pretty wary of any recent Cambridge, Oxford, or Bristol graduate presenting themselves for employment.
Then it’s just prejudice (if you don’t need evidence) !
I’ve seen many recent Cambridge computer science and engineering graduates and there’s no problem with them. They have all been excellent. CAn’t comment on Oxford or Bristol (this used to be the undisputed #3 university 30 odd years ago, but seems to have slipped in the rankings if those mean anything) or other subjects.
I’ve heard standards have dropped and it’s like limbo dancing under a twenty foot bridge. Personally I blame…anyone I can think of at the time but mostly America
Science graduates seem to be relatively free of this ridiculous’Woke- Lack of Moral Fibre (LMF) nonsense.
However it has permeated the Arts/Humanities world to a terrifying degree.
Perhaps we should abandon Arts/ Humanities as a complete ‘waste of rations’.
At best it is merely vocational, at worse, downright seditious.
Yes. The Truss and forthcoming De Santis or Trump administration should withdraw all student loans funding for non-STEM courses.
If you want to buy one of those, pay for it yourself. Or see if you can borrow the money at commercial rates, though the banks – unlike the muggins State and perennially ass-r*ped taxpayer – will need convincing that you might one day earn enough to repay them, and with a worthless degree in Gender Studies, you won’t.
The Monster is coming for the sciences.
If we agree the the literal meaning of the word as, “pre-conceived prior to evidence” then yes, that’s exactly what it is.
I would view such applicants from a starting point that they might have been inculcated with some prejudices of their own, that would be detrimental to the business. I would hope to be proved wrong. But that would be the starting point.
It is the same when interviewing anyone from the public sector. You know what the problems may well be, before you meet them. But you give it a go – it would be silly not to. Hunches (a better word, I think) are not always right – but quite often they are.
It “isn’t fair” I know. But fortunately, when I was young, no one was stupid enough to tell me that the world is, or should be, fair. So I grew up free of the crippling handicap of hope that it might be fair.
Why Bristol?
Why is that?
Why is that?
What in particular ?
Their every utterance and action, for starters.
Oh brilliant. They hired Susan Michie’s sister.
Farewell Cambridge!
The glorious days of ‘Porterhouse’ are finally ended. “Dives in Omnia”.
It’s difficult to imagine anyone worse than Stephen Toope, but she might yet prove herself his equal.
The Fasci* t Left is letting us peek behind the veil……what an evil woman
Intelligence doesn’t equate with censorship (limited thought equals limited intelligence). I lived in Cambridge once but don’t hold that against me. I had a friend who went to Fitzwilliam college but I only worked (once and briefly) at Trinity Hall as a porter. I have also watched Miami Vice, once. Does this qualify me to be vice-chancellor? Personally I think Professor Tempest should have got it but who cares what I think and Hugh isn’t saying.
Why was the woman given this important role? Her stint at Princeton could hardly be a recommendation. There is something rotten going on.
Another North American import into the UK to add to a relentlessly expanding list that includes BLM, Mark Carney, identity politics, misandry, CRT, bubble gum, Stephen Toope, etc..