Image: Shutterstock/Matej Kastelic Image: Shutterstock/Matej Kastelic IT WILL BE compulsory for third-level institutions to provide an annual breakdown of the ethnic diversity among Irish academia from December this year, the Higher Education Authority has said.
The HEA said that it has also developed a national survey of academic staff “to develop a picture of race equality” across the Irish higher education sector. Based on that limited data, however, the report says that there appears to be just one full-time black female academic professorial post-holder in Irish academia, and several post-holders from other minority ethnic backgrounds.
“They know there’s a problem and they know how powerful statistics are, how powerful data is. They know the number of students who are international students… because they need to collect international fees. So why are they not on top of foreign-born staff?” Figures of that cohort in Ireland aren’t collated. A 2018 study by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the ESRI found that the black non-Irish group are less than half as likely to be employed as the white Irish group.
Racism
Utter nonsense
What legal basis has any employer to collect this type of personal data?
you mean black. that's not diversity. that's racism.
Wonder if I moved to Nigeria could I get a top job as a college professor as the token white guy.
Breakdown of ethnic diversity for rape statistics would be more helpful.
Can we have the same with crime statistics?
Great news if you’re black, a woman, gay, trans or albino. Not so great if you’re a white male.
Could have that little box-ticking exercise done by lunchtime.
Merit. Not gender. Not race. Not sexuality. Merit.
The elite want us all to be called Irish no matter the 'ethnicity' when it suits...and when it doesn't, they want the Irish wheedled out.
Seems to be a few people commenting here against this initiative from HR. leave it out people.
That shouldn’t take long.
Hail the god of diversity.
Excellent news !
What a shit show.
Well my dad was from Dublin, my mom was from Cork. Is that diverse enough for you?
It’s about time they did this!
sliding fast into the rte zone with this constant garbage
So it’s a numbers game and the best man or woman will not get the job
Our students deserve better, why should they except less . You should not get a job based on you skin colour or sex
So weird how many replies to this tweet confuses ethnicity with nationality. Also funny that they believe only Irish people are employed by Irish universities, even over the last 100 years.
Token jobs? Surely merit is better?
So.. Hiring less irish people
BasedMelania Must not be Irish, right?
Isn't that racist?
Why
That actually sounds racist to me 🤔
Soon enough this statue will be able to get a university job.
khanacademy is free, so is most of the information on the internet so why pay for this crap?
So the ability to actually do the job is getting pushed further and further down the selection criteria when choosing a person to fulfil a role.
Meh more left wing racism. Kinda the norm these days. Still, I never thought I'd see the day when the right would be considered the rational and tolerant side of the political divide but hey ho here we are.
Why? Irish first
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