Our thanks to Jeff for this. The start of the piece:
Oxford University is embroiled in a sexism row after its history department said allowing students to sit exams at home would help close the gender gap.
History students will be able to sit one of their five final-year exams at home from the start of next semester, the faculty has announced.
It was claimed the policy would help female students improve their results.
Why doesn’t the university simply give women twice as long as men to sit their exams? This too would ‘help close the gender gap’. Likewise a policy of raising the scores of people with vaginas by 25% (up to a maximum of 100%).
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And, how, may I ask, are they going to secure the honesty of these wimmin? Quite frankly with the stories of voter fraud coming out regarding students, I would be minded to treat the lot of them as liars and cheats.
They behave like small children so should be treated as such.
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Hear, hear!
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‘They behave like small children so should be treated as such‘.
Yes indeed but that is not possible in the present circumstances so how do we get to a position from which it is?
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Typical of the feminist lobby to be blind to the obvious regarding this suggestion – namely that it would be a major advantage to the students from better off families – those with a room of their own at home and a nice desk to work from in peace and quiet. Many poorer students have no such facilities, coming from chaotic homes in which taking a exam would be unthinkable. But the feminists are only concerned with middle class career women who career success will enhance the power of the sisterhood.
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The even more obvious is that it gives an opportunity to cheat.
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I’d say that it encourages them to do so because not to is unnatural.
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I agree, but if I understand the matter correctly, an additional objection to this kind of exam regime is that it seems to offer its beneficiaries opportunities for wholesale cheating.
Also, it’s amusing, in a way, that Oxford Uni describes this initiative as being about ‘equity’, as if it’s ‘equity’ to give one group of students such a blatant advantage over another group for the express purpose of producing a patently spurious “equality” between the two groups.
This is, of course, a classic example of prioritizing ‘equality of outcome’ over ‘equality of opportunity’ (correctly defined) and, obviously, makes a total mockery of the exam system.
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I agree, and, furthermore, this kind of exam regime appears to offer its beneficiaries ample opportunities for wholesale cheating, and any woman who achieves high marks under this regime will be wide open to suspicion of having done exactly that.
Oxford University claims this initiative is about ‘equity’ (LOL!), as if it’s ‘equity’ to give one group of students such a blatant advantage over another group for the express purpose of producing a patently spurious “equality” between the two groups (and that is precisely what this initiative is about).
It’s a classic example of prioritizing ‘equality of outcome’ over ‘equality of opportunity’ (correctly defined) and, as such, reeks of modern feminism.
Yes, things have changed since this commentator’s university days, when exams were meant to be tests of knowledge and understanding, and done under the same conditions for all regardless of gender, etc..
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If there was anything so condescending that said: women are so useless these are the lengths we must go to give them a shot – this is it!
Facepalmingly embarrassing.
It’s to tacky its shameful
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Why not allow them to call a friend during exams?
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Has it not occurred to the powers-that-be in Oxford University that this initiative, with, among other things, its obvious potential for facilitating wholesale cheating, will bring their exam system into disrepute, and deservedly so?
As for this initiative being about ‘equity’, what a gross misuse of terminology it is to describe as ‘equity’ a system that is deliberately designed to advantage one group of students over another group for the express, obviously ideologically-inspired, purpose of producing a patently spurious “equality” between the two groups. What a blatantly ideologically-inspired corruption of the exam system this is.
It is, of course, a classic example of prioritizing ‘equality of outcome’ (at the expense of individual merit) over ‘equality of opportunity’ (correctly defined). Maybe, just maybe, it will make people in general aware that this is part of what modern feminism is about.
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‘ … its obvious potential for facilitating wholesale cheating … ‘
It isn’t cheating if it’s allowed by the rules.
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