No wonder Ruan is on your case, he is worried that you may discover his nice little earner is a total waste of time and money. I hesitate to use the words I would really like to use due to litigious nature of this character.
@@josephstalin7389 I was not referring to racial slurs or anything to do with race, more the veracity, of the person referred to. And his undue his undue haste to report anything he just does not agree with, despite whether it is the truth or not.Have a nice day.
@@josephstalin7389 Yes it does. Try posting a racial slur, such as the one beginning with an N, rhyming with bigger and see how long it lasts for, before it's removed, but that's irrelevant: the original poster has no intention of posting one. Unfortunately TH-cam mistakenly identifies posts containing certain trigger words, as racist, or hate speech, so one often has to obfuscate them, i.e. say b1acks, wh1te, r@ce, s1avery, Afr1ca etc. in order to circumvent the censor.
Ash Sarkar is most proud of an Aunt back in Pakistan who was a 'freedom fighter' that actually blew places and people up. Where did they all move to after gaining that independence? To Britain to take up valuable space and slag us off ad nauseam.
Going to university is hard work, I went to University College London to do my LLB (law). I imagine the types of universities you mentioned are where there is little effort put in but good results are still expected. It doesn't work like that as you know. By the way, you are a very intelligent and reasonable man,not aggressive in any way. I would say that your presentations are very well done and understood. 🌟
@Eric Hurt I went to study law and was not influenced by the political atmosphere. I am very much my own person and not influenced by these leftie ideologies.
A lecturer walks into an auditorium at Oxford and says "good morning". Silence. A lecturer walks into an auditorium at Bristol and says "good morning " and is met by "good morning". A lecturer walks into an auditorium at East London University and says "good morning". All the students write it down.
We are still allowed to point out curiosities, thank God. Bob Cratchett, lit by his candle in deepest Winter, is finding discrepancies in the ledgers ...
Only found your videos couple of weeks ago, must say they are addictive and refreshing thank you. I went to school when history was taught with facts were at the heart of it. Thank you
POLICE REFORM, POLICE EDUCATION, DECOLONISATION OF CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORIES, TACKLING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE FOR MARGINALISED COMMUNITIES. Jobsworths who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Here's a thing, Welsh Border Collies are noticeably more intelligent than Doberman Pinschers. It's due to evolution and selective breeding. No amount of doggie training can change this.
I'm surprised Ruwan has had the time this past week to watch your channel surely he has been otherwise engaged emailing and complaining to advertisers on GB News? No?
@joe loney I have noticed the same here on the south coast of England. The job that needs the least skill of any kind or physical energy is taken up mainly by members of the BAEM community.
@@enzedbritThe gates of all the building sites i see are manned by Peoples of African and Indian appearance. Skills requiered are the ability to wear a hard hat and high viz jacket and to pull open and close a gate.
My ex-wife graduated with 1st Class Honours from the University of East London in 1996, and she is as thick as a plank. Her degree is Accounting and Finance but she has never been able to keep a decent job because she has educational certificates FAR beyond her intelligence. P.S. She's white.
@@georgehetty7857 I'm not sure what you mean? The fact is that up until the 1970s only 5% of kids went to University. Today over 60% of kids go to university but employers say that the number of "good graduates" has not changed. The purpose of expanding universities was to funnel half the nations youth through the University Marxist indoctrination system where they are brainwashed with fake white guilt and anti-national propaganda for the borderless world under the collectivist communist one world government.
@@dreamdiction I thought that, in the 70s, it was 4%. In those days, the relevance of the degree was less important, unless you were becoming a related professional. It was seen as proof of your ability to learn and, as such, enough to get into many careers. My Archaeology and Classics degree was a pathway into totally unrelated work. With 50-60% of the population going to university, that indicator has vanished. It's not special any longer.
You don’t abuse you ask the questions that perhaps many Politician’s either don’t want to ask or don’t want to hear the answers to, this applies to all Political Parties as they generally like “”we are spending more or we are improving etc” Very bland simple answers to the funders of this service I.e The Taxpayer or the Students or their parents. So it suits not ask too much or look for proper answers, but this does nothing to explain or expose any shortcomings or missed opportunities. So any user of the service should be pleased you are there to query and question policies or direction as no one else will it seems. This will mean the students will lose out and will have paid considerable sums of money along with the Taxpayer to little gain.
There is no colour bar at Cambridge. Twenty five years ago my daughter read Engineering at Cambridge a very challenging degree! She had 5 A levels at A grades in Further Maths Maths Physics German and General Studies.(Entry requirement 4 A levels at A Grade in pertinent subjects). Amongst her matriculation peers there was a lad from Ghana a lad from Botswana and a lad from Sri Lanka all on the same course. They were there by academic merit and hard work. The only colour that mattered was grey. As Poirot says "The little grey cells!".
Even in South Africa, where "racial bias against blacks" has been eliminated to the point that Australia is granting political asylum to white farmers, this "achievement gap" persists. And they are desperately looking for explanations to somehow attribute this phenomenon to an undead spirit of apartheid.
@@onceonlyihope3973 - White SA farmers are routinely being turned down by Oz authorities. You’d imagine their skill sets were ideally suited to the harsh Ozzy environment.
University of East London….you might as well have said University of Middle of Nowhere Simon…nowhere place, worthless degrees - actually you might be able to make an interesting paper hat out of your ‘degree’…
If these places and acamedics spent less time worrying about colonialism and making ridiculous suggestions about the ethnicity of British monarchs, they might actually get somewhere.
I believe that the University of East London started life as the East Ham and West Ham Technical Colleges when East Ham was a fairly genteel middle class suburb and West Ham not quite so much (but both had good Grammar Schools), then amalgamated into Newham Technical College when Newham was born and started to turn into something else, finally becoming the sort of 'University' (sic) that befits a place that's become unrecognisable to anyone who might still have any fond memories of the area left. No doubt they get the staff that suits their current purposes, whatever they are. Thankfully there are other 'universities'.
One of the main issues post colonialism is that the top jobs in nations like Nigeria were in the colonial civil service. These nations saw teaching or the bureaucracy as a way to wealth. They didn't see the huge wealth building industries behind it back in Europe. Even today Black students are more likely to get a soft degree that lands them a government job rather than a Stem degree. If they want to decolonize the curriculum, they should stop doing stupid degrees that Ruwan promotes
RESPONSE FROM THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON: "Maffs is racist. Speling is racist. Society is racsit. Studey is racist. Yeah, take that Whitey".
I refer to Jordan Peterson's comments on research on IQ from different races. Mustn't talk about this, of course. But some races can clearly run faster than others.
Simon you should point out the fact that sub saharan Africans dominate all athletic sports (except for swimming), this phenomenal is widely known to be genetic (15% more testosterone denser bones, more muscle mass). The denser bone mass which gives them an advantage on land is a hinderance in the water as it makes them less buoyant . We can hypothesize that darwinian evolution has changed human populations over millennia to adapt to their specific environments (R and K strategy). If the brain is 85% of the genome how can the the differences in academic achievement NOT be mostly genetic . We also have the issue of brain SIZE, east asians the biggest, Europeans slightly smaller and sub saharan Africans a full quarter pound smaller on average. There is so much to be talked about on this subject (O C E A N, the big five personality traits , levels of differed gratification and impulse control) the trouble is everybody's scared to air these scientific truths because of the Marxist mob, which is the whole mainstream media and the government. As I've heard you say, stereotypes are based on normal people's observations, Spike Lee an African American film director made a film some years ago called White men can't jump which was a major success , can you imagine a script called black men can't swim getting the green light LOL
You didn`t mention cycling , very few black teams or individuals in the tour de France or any other major event . Odd, as the velodrome would appear to be the ideal location to demonstrate the black athletes explosive power .
I often remark to colleagues that we should imagine that we are in the business of validating future airline pilots, before dishing out a degree. The idea that there is little or no consequence to all these certificates is false, and the trick is repeated higher up the academic ladder with post-graduates. Who needs wings!
I very much doubt he will take up your offer and will either stay quite or will use all of his extensive learning and knowledge to give you some other answer which has nothing to do with the question you raised.
Just to nitpick terminology, but shouldn't foreigners coming to Europe and changing the way we do things here technically be called "colonizing" instead of "decolonizing" ?
Living as I do in Ruwan's country of origin, I find it strange that none of the very much of a minority of whites here advocate for the kind of multicultural mixing and diversity he promotes in my country of birth. I would go as far as to say that it is actively discouraged, no ads here with mixed race couples. Is it perhaps because they enjoy and promote an homogenous society. I am a guest here, and lucky to be allowed to live here. Not my place to criticise. Mr Uderawage-Perera could well observe similar reticence in Britain.
@Eric Hurt Yup, he was the death of Britain. Much to repair if it's not too late. A purge of our institutions would be a good place to start, unless the poison hasn't spread too far!
@Eric Hurt I studied there, so I should know. They were the North East London Polytechnic all through the seventies till they changed their name to the Polytechnic of East London for two or three years before becoming a university in 1992, thanks to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, when 35 polytechnics across the country were allowed to become universities.
I graduated from the University of East London in 1980. In those days it was the polytechnic of East London. The degrees were awarded by the CNAA(the Council on National Academic Awards) , now sadly defunct. I got a Master of Arts in American History and Politics. In those days the degree subjects had genuine intellectual rigour. Very few got 1st Class Honours, so the coinage has been really devalued and makes the whole thing ridiculous. As I recall, all the teaching staff were white and of the highest calibre. They seemed to be genuine liberal open minded types. A lot of the students were of the Socialist Workers Party stereotype, although even they were overwhelmingly white. I was one of the handful of older part time students with full time jobs, with wives and children to support, so we kept our more orthodox political views to ourselves.
The UEL was never a secondary school, but was always post-secondary institution, though it only officially became a university in 1992, having been a "Polytechnic" since 1970, and a "Technical Institute" from 1895 to 1970. Since it first appeared in the university rankings, it's always been at or near the bottom.
If I am to be harangued, I cannot think of a single individual who I would choose other than you Simon. It would be like being attacked by a cuddly puppy. Thank you again for your excellent and educating videos.
The last time I looked, these university rankings were based on research standings and are therefore more a ranking of professors and lecturers than student achievement. I clicked on the good university guide link but couldn’t see an explanation of their methodology.
If you examined the data more closely you might find that the most successful black students are of African heritage. Mostly because African kids live in two parent households, and they are pushed to do their homework. It's not the ethnicity it's the attitude.
I would be interested to see the various drop-out rates and the reasons given ... No doubt the 'race poverty' card would attempt to be used, but I'd like to see independent data ...
It might be too early for the esteemed professor to react to you're challenge Simon, after all it's early on a weekend, they are probably still in their bed dreaming of a communist utopia.
What is in store when these underachieving graduates are let loose worldwide. With their dumbed down degrees, what harm is this going to do to the centuries old reputation of British university education ? We once taught students pioneering knowledge that lead the world in achievements.
Exactly i have the upmost respect for students young and old who apply themselves to achieve a degree in their chosen subject , the courses shouldn't be dumbed down just so under achievers can obtain one and the instigators of such a stupid idea can feel good about themselves
Why were so many technical colleges converted to universities? Did it achieve anything. I am sure businesses look at which university a potential employee graduated from, like they do here in South Africa .
There are a couple of bits of information that I would like to know before committing to any conjecture. The first has to do with comparing the percentages of the demographics of the university populations with the entire population. The second has to do with whether there is an affirmative action process at play. When I started university, the professors would start their classes by having us look at the student to the left and the right and would announce that only one of us three would graduate. Coupled with higher entry requirements, the statistic that only 3 percentage of the entire population would successfully complete a university degree made that statistic understandable at the time. If it is true that there is only 3.5% of the population is "black", and only 3% of those will complete a university degree, the expectation that a higher representation of "black" people suggests something else. Of course, university standards may have dropped since I was a lad. It seems to me that the goal of schools is no longer to pursue knowledge but to pay the salaries of some mediocre talents.
Studies world wide show that academic success is highest among Ashkenazi Jews, followed by East Asians, then whites, and lastly those of sub-Saharan African origin. Bearing in mind that correlation is not causation, this correlates with a well-established measure of cerebral prowess, which I cannot however name. If I did, an algorithm would no doubt remove my comment. It has done before.
This achievement gap is found the world over. The cause is very obvious but very unpalatable. Evolution has created differences, differences in the gene pool, differences in the bodies and brains arising, differences in behavior and capabilities as a result. Woke culture hopes to overcome this by wishing very hard against it and having large numbers agree with each other. But millions of years of evolution cannot be talked over. Its the same as fantasising that your car can be fixed by getting enough people on face book to say it is fixed. It's insanity and we now have it on a societal level.
Why aren’t students from ethnic backgrounds just allowed to award themselves degrees of their choice? They could even be allowed to print the degree at home to save having to make the onerous journey around the corner to the awards ceremony!
It is interesting that many of the students UEL attracts will come form the inner city environs surrounding it. The schools they will have attended will have received substantially higher funding than those in the suburbs and rural location. In some cases inner city schools can receive 50% more funding per pupil per year. Surely they should be receiving the highest levels of state education in the country.
A national Poll, conducted in India, about 3 years ago, asked the populace to give there opinion, on the years of the British Raj. in India. The overwhelming majority, looked back with warmth and friendlyness.
Worse yet, when the "graduates" from these low ranked universities become employed then this problem moves to the employers then the public. The employers reputations nosediving and the public suffering.
@The Burnley Labour Traitor I hope youre right, but in third world countries businesses simply lower their standards ie child labour, sweat shop labour common amongst western companies where they can get away with it. Or food contamination in third world countries. Maybe the businesses will simply lower standards.
@The Burnley Labour Traitor the problem in university education on its own would be salvageable as you say. However the problem is not just in university education. It affects all of society and from multiple angles. Even our ability to discuss it being limited by the censors.
I think it used to be North East London Polytechnic. I spent a short time there before going later on to get a full degree from the University of Salford. It did have a lot of faults but it’s all personal opinion. Why do people think Oxford or Cambridge are superior, i suspect that’s inbuilt snobbishness.
Maybe they're trying to copy our MP's quality standards ? blunder along making huge mistakes, talk the talk but don't deliver & pretend you know what you're actually doing !! 🤔
Hmm. 2 no. Thumbs down and most likely when the video was posted 3 hours ago. For persons that feel the need to offer nothing but the wish to cancel others with a different opinion to theirs, don't tune in and don't feel the need to stalk at 0600 in the morning to deliver your daily thumbs down. Your agenda is clear. You are intolerant and nothing but bullies. I may not agree with everything that is delivered on this channel but it is clear to me that Simon's approach is calm and considered, offering the opportunity to others for debate....This is quite a contrast to many trolls whom only wish to cancel and if these persons occupy positions of trust and responsibilities in academia, I fear for the future of the students in those establishments. I and like many others, support the continued growth of Simon's channel. 👍
In the late 70s I attended a course at Tottenham College. In a toilet cubicle some wag had inscribed on the toilet paper dispenser "Diploma Env. Health. Please take one." Quite.
a relative of mine went to manchester uni not the real one the polytechnic now called a university.. anyway some of the modules were shared with students of other degrees. These lectures were attended by a mob of people with allegiance to the country now run by an ex cricketer and playboy... They sat at the back shouting abuse at lecturers and even throwing things at them. God knows what the lecturers thought or if they dared to report it..
The top-notch universities are also in the position of matriculating students based not on merit/ability, but on some innate characteristics such as race, economic background, or belonging to a minority group. Regardless of rankings, the top tier institution will still attract the best of the best who will be accepted on more objective academic criteria and will thus go on to perform exceedingly well, regardless if the students without the ability are still awarded degrees for the sake of "social justice, equity, etc". This last paragraph's scenario, when applied to the lower ranked institutions will cause said schools suffer enormously because not only do you continue admissions based on non-academic criteria, but even the students who do not benefit from this "privilege of lowered expectations" will still generally be those that would not have been accepted at a higher tier school. When you run this through the chain of 130ish universities in the UK you can see how the soft racism of low expectations combined with the notion that merit and ability is conferred with a piece of paper...the raking will show this. The higher the ranking of school (based on academic rigor) the less of an impact the lower performing quota admissions will affect the ranking. The lower the academic rigor the more pronounced this effect becomes. Its akin to if the olympics were to keep the 400 meter run (but reduce the length to 200 meters) and then invite mere mortals to participate and we would be shocked that all-star athletes continue to be first. To go a step further imagine if everyone were given 1st place awards.
I am flattered that you should think so highly of my intellect, but I assure you that it is no higher than average! I don't think that any of the ideas which I express here are new or original. It is more the case that a lot of people think the same way, but do not wish to be blacklisted for saying so out loud.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb thank you for your reply Mr Webb, being a scot i was indulging in some dry Scottish humour, keep up the excellent work respect from one of the silent majority.
On the one hand appalled by the lowering of standards generally. I can remember having to crawl over hot coals even to get the old "o" levels. As for the others!!! As for further on...lets not go there. On the otherhand we should all be pleased at people getting ANY further education. On the channel it would help the comments community 😀 discover new saxon warlords!!
Simon, your observations perfectly parallel the situation in the American higher education system. Open admissions result in failing results by all measures. The higher the expectations of students for admissions and course performance the higher the outcomes. It does not matter if it is at the grammar school or doctorate level. No country spends more money at all education levels and gets less than the U.S., but the UK is probably very close behind. This will never improve. Look to Eastern Europe for superior higher education.
A first from one of these weak universities is worthless. I graduated from a strong university in the early eighties. There were 120 on our LL.B course in my year. Two firsts. The currency has been devalued.
It may be the best thing to close this university down. Perhaps turn it back into a Technical College with emphasis on Vocational careers. But keeping it going as a university just seems pointless. The same applies to London Metropolitan, Thames Valley, and some of the poorer performing universities in cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and up in Scotland. As it is, the UEL is just the type of university that could become a hotbed for radical Islamist beliefs and views.
Maybe you could do a video on universities v polytechnics? Entitled, 'Not enough university degrees, how to increase this and pretend we're a success.'
University qualifications have lost their value within the work place due to them being "dumbed down". On average "Black" students yet 2.2 or colloquial know as "A Desmond( toto) "
No no no no, Simon. The UK needs more mathematicians who can't add up, teachers who can't spell, scientists who deal drugs, engineers who fight with machetes, chemists who can boil crystal meth and footballers. That's what universities are for, innit?
@@georgehetty7857 Historians who insist Anne Boleyn was black. Cos maffs is racist. Splelling is racist. Historey is racist. Studee is racist. Yeah, take that Whitey.
I heard that five percent of children are dyslexic on entering primary school some will get help the others slip through the net teaching a child to read pre school is a huge help
No wonder Ruan is on your case, he is worried that you may discover his nice little earner is a total waste of time and money. I hesitate to use the words I would really like to use due to litigious nature of this character.
Plenty on ted talks if he lose one thing he’ll be on another.
Even Karl Marx admitted that he could not think of any thing better than capitalism.
Don't worry TH-cam doesn't rremove racial slur comments anyway
@@josephstalin7389 I was not referring to racial slurs or anything to do with race, more the veracity, of the person referred to. And his undue his undue haste to report anything he just does not agree with, despite whether it is the truth or not.Have a nice day.
@@josephstalin7389 Yes it does. Try posting a racial slur, such as the one beginning with an N, rhyming with bigger and see how long it lasts for, before it's removed, but that's irrelevant: the original poster has no intention of posting one.
Unfortunately TH-cam mistakenly identifies posts containing certain trigger words, as racist, or hate speech, so one often has to obfuscate them, i.e. say b1acks, wh1te, r@ce, s1avery, Afr1ca etc. in order to circumvent the censor.
Someone showed right an article on how hypocritical it is to push about decolonization while living in the country they blame
Ash Sarkar is most proud of an Aunt back in Pakistan who was a 'freedom fighter' that actually blew places and people up. Where did they all move to after gaining that independence? To Britain to take up valuable space and slag us off ad nauseam.
Going to university is hard work, I went to University College London to do my LLB (law). I imagine the types of universities you mentioned are where there is little effort put in but good results are still expected. It doesn't work like that as you know. By the way, you are a very intelligent and reasonable man,not aggressive in any way. I would say that your presentations are very well done and understood. 🌟
Seconded
@Eric Hurt I went to study law and was not influenced by the political atmosphere. I am very much my own person and not influenced by these leftie ideologies.
A lecturer walks into an auditorium at Oxford and says "good morning". Silence.
A lecturer walks into an auditorium at Bristol and says "good morning
" and is met by "good morning".
A lecturer walks into an auditorium at East London University and says "good morning". All the students write it down.
Lol
Can they write?
'A lecturer walks into an auditorium at East London University and says "good morning". All the students write it down.' They're able to write?
Or feel traumatised and go home ... Goodby from Barry take care and keep safe...
>boing
'College is about learning more and more about less and less until you know less and less about more and more.'
The terminus of this comment is that “ an expert” is someone who knows everything about nothing!
An old Texan man named Ross i met in Milwaukee, WI(hometown) said it to me 20 years ago. I'm 40 now.
Expert, a person who knows an awful lot about very little?
Until eventually you know everything about nothing
Up early keeping up the good fight (metaphorically speaking)on a Saturday morning Simon
Your an inspiration to us all
It's very kind of you to say so.
Maybe if they had a statue of Cecil Rhodes outside their building to inspire them, it might help.
well at least they could focus for more than a millisecond.
The same is mirrored in cities and neighborhoods...
And also, of course, in businesses.
Not in music performance and theory, though.
@@LeeGee That depends what you define as real music.
@It's ok to be a nationalist youd have the anti semite destroyers deployed
@It's ok to be a nationalist Is that influence more than brainwashed blondes?
We are still allowed to point out curiosities, thank God.
Bob Cratchett, lit by his candle in deepest Winter, is finding discrepancies in the ledgers ...
Only found your videos couple of weeks ago, must say they are addictive and refreshing thank you. I went to school when history was taught with facts were at the heart of it. Thank you
Then you know your racist history, that's good
POLICE REFORM, POLICE EDUCATION, DECOLONISATION OF CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORIES, TACKLING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE FOR MARGINALISED COMMUNITIES. Jobsworths who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Please stop shouting. Raise your argument not your voice.
@@phillrob5964 Sorry Phil....My dander is up and its a hell of a dander.
@@Cardifftoyboy1 It’s understandable. I’m not sure how Simon Webb remains so calm and serene …
Here's a thing, Welsh Border Collies are noticeably more intelligent than Doberman Pinschers. It's due to evolution and selective breeding. No amount of doggie training can change this.
Evolution is a harsh mistress.
That's lovely isn't it
@@chadgun4135 source ?....or should that be SAUCE !!
@Graham Storie Mein can...
And ????
I'm surprised Ruwan has had the time this past week to watch your channel surely he has been otherwise engaged emailing and complaining to advertisers on GB News? No?
He's definitely got the hots for you. I think it's charming if a little "stalky".
I know several people with east london University degrees they all work as security on building sites
@joe loney I have noticed the same here on the south coast of England. The job that needs the least skill of any kind or physical energy is taken up mainly by members of the BAEM community.
@joe loney were they indigenous British white or Poles?
@@daveglynn748 BAEM? Or non-indigenous, colonist?
@@enzedbritThe gates of all the building sites i see are manned by Peoples of African and Indian appearance.
Skills requiered are the ability to wear a hard hat and high viz jacket and to pull open and close a gate.
@@daveglynn748 so indeed, non-indigenous people, settlers, colonisers. People we don’t want in Britain. People we don’t need
My ex-wife graduated with 1st Class Honours from the University of East London in 1996, and she is as thick as a plank. Her degree is Accounting and Finance but she has never been able to keep a decent job because she has educational certificates FAR beyond her intelligence. P.S. She's white.
There are always exemptions that’s why we have statistics.
@@georgehetty7857 I'm not sure what you mean? The fact is that up until the 1970s only 5% of kids went to University. Today over 60% of kids go to university but employers say that the number of "good graduates" has not changed. The purpose of expanding universities was to funnel half the nations youth through the University Marxist indoctrination system where they are brainwashed with fake white guilt and anti-national propaganda for the borderless world under the collectivist communist one world government.
That's why universities used to be for men only.
Dream Diction
The important point of your 'ps' is that it is possible, and most likely accurate, to say such such things of whites, but NOT of blacks.
@@dreamdiction
I thought that, in the 70s, it was 4%.
In those days, the relevance of the degree was less important, unless you were becoming a related professional. It was seen as proof of your ability to learn and, as such, enough to get into many careers. My Archaeology and Classics degree was a pathway into totally unrelated work.
With 50-60% of the population going to university, that indicator has vanished. It's not special any longer.
You don’t abuse you ask the questions that perhaps many Politician’s either don’t want to ask or don’t want to hear the answers to, this applies to all Political Parties as they generally like “”we are spending more or we are improving etc”
Very bland simple answers to the funders of this service I.e The Taxpayer or the Students or their parents.
So it suits not ask too much or look for proper answers, but this does nothing to explain or expose any shortcomings or missed opportunities. So any user of the service should be pleased you are there to query and question policies or direction as no one else will it seems.
This will mean the students will lose out and will have paid considerable sums of money along with the Taxpayer to little gain.
It's always Bogle's me how Diane Abbottcas got hers because thick is an understatement in her case.
She slept with the tutor.
Or his guide dog.
@@alangknowles more than 1 I'd say..
It’s a real mystery how Diane Abbot and David Lammy got into those positive discrimination Oxbridge universities ….
Thank you so much for your wisdom on this video..love your channel..❤
Thank you!
There is no colour bar at Cambridge. Twenty five years ago my daughter read Engineering at Cambridge a very challenging degree! She had 5 A levels at A grades in Further Maths
Maths Physics German and General Studies.(Entry requirement 4 A levels at A Grade in pertinent subjects). Amongst her matriculation peers there was a lad from Ghana a lad from Botswana and a lad from Sri Lanka all on the same course. They were there by academic merit and hard work. The only colour that mattered was grey.
As Poirot says "The little grey cells!".
I’m surprised university performance tables haven’t been labelled waycist. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
That'll be the next demand. Cancel publishing the tables because they are elitist.
Facts are Waycyst.
Stop giving them ideas
Too busy being heteronormative phallocentric oppressors 😁
Imagine the shame of failing a “decolonisation of criminal theory course”.
Only to be beaten by passing one.
Lol
Even in South Africa, where "racial bias against blacks" has been eliminated to the point that Australia is granting political asylum to white farmers, this "achievement gap" persists. And they are desperately looking for explanations to somehow attribute this phenomenon to an undead spirit of apartheid.
The Oz immigration Dept has been knocking them back - defying our Ministers who believe they should be allowed.
@@onceonlyihope3973 - White SA farmers are routinely being turned down by Oz authorities. You’d imagine their skill sets were ideally suited to the harsh Ozzy environment.
@@onceonlyihope3973 I didn't know that. At least it's an issue.
@@onceonlyihope3973 Not the Sudanese though.
@Eric Hurt - They prob got in thanks to family in the UK. People without fairly strong and recent ties are being rejected.
Thanks for the Harangue Simon, it's just what I needed this early in the morning 🤗
I prefer kippers to herring.
University of East London….you might as well have said University of Middle of Nowhere Simon…nowhere place, worthless degrees - actually you might be able to make an interesting paper hat out of your ‘degree’…
@Spencer Green 👍
@@InspiralJez They’re writing the course as we speak….
@@InspiralJez Great motto for such a prestigious institution!!!
Free Hat! Free Hat!
If these places and acamedics spent less time worrying about colonialism and making ridiculous suggestions about the ethnicity of British monarchs, they might actually get somewhere.
It is very difficult to educate planks.
another witty & well though out response to this woke nonsense 👏
I believe that the University of East London started life as the East Ham and West Ham Technical Colleges when East Ham was a fairly genteel middle class suburb and West Ham not quite so much (but both had good Grammar Schools), then amalgamated into Newham Technical College when Newham was born and started to turn into something else, finally becoming the sort of 'University' (sic) that befits a place that's become unrecognisable to anyone who might still have any fond memories of the area left. No doubt they get the staff that suits their current purposes, whatever they are. Thankfully there are other 'universities'.
One of the main issues post colonialism is that the top jobs in nations like Nigeria were in the colonial civil service. These nations saw teaching or the bureaucracy as a way to wealth. They didn't see the huge wealth building industries behind it back in Europe.
Even today Black students are more likely to get a soft degree that lands them a government job rather than a Stem degree. If they want to decolonize the curriculum, they should stop doing stupid degrees that Ruwan promotes
RESPONSE FROM THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON:
"Maffs is racist. Speling is racist. Society is racsit. Studey is racist. Yeah, take that Whitey".
Year we can fink aswel as enybody.
@@bobstan4221 ha ha 😂
I adore the illiterate. But there is a danger of them overwhelming us
I refer to Jordan Peterson's comments on research on IQ from different races. Mustn't talk about this, of course. But some races can clearly run faster than others.
Joggers gotta jog
I pray this debate happens. My goodness! How incredible would that be?
Great channel pal keep it up 👍
Simon you should point out the fact that sub saharan Africans dominate all athletic sports (except for swimming), this phenomenal is widely known to be genetic (15% more testosterone denser bones, more muscle mass). The denser bone mass which gives them an advantage on land is a hinderance in the water as it makes them less buoyant . We can hypothesize that darwinian evolution has changed human populations over millennia to adapt to their specific environments (R and K strategy). If the brain is 85% of the genome how can the the differences in academic achievement NOT be mostly genetic . We also have the issue of brain SIZE, east asians the biggest, Europeans slightly smaller and sub saharan Africans a full quarter pound smaller on average. There is so much to be talked about on this subject (O C E A N, the big five personality traits , levels of differed gratification and impulse control) the trouble is everybody's scared to air these scientific truths because of the Marxist mob, which is the whole mainstream media and the government. As I've heard you say, stereotypes are based on normal people's observations, Spike Lee an African American film director made a film some years ago called White men can't jump which was a major success , can you imagine a script called black men can't swim getting the green light LOL
You didn`t mention cycling , very few black teams or individuals in the tour de France or any other major event . Odd, as the velodrome would appear to be the ideal location to demonstrate the black athletes explosive power .
Team 3d alpha has good videos on which peoples are best for which sports.
I often remark to colleagues that we should imagine that we are in the business of validating future airline pilots, before dishing out a degree. The idea that there is little or no consequence to all these certificates is false, and the trick is repeated higher up the academic ladder with post-graduates. Who needs wings!
Precisely! When pilots become the beneficiaries of “equity” policies, it will be a great boost to the black box manufacturers…..
I very much doubt he will take up your offer and will either stay quite or will use all of his extensive learning and knowledge to give you some other answer which has nothing to do with the question you raised.
I've got a Cerstificate!
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Me too, my sirtifikit is better than yours.
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Oh you went their two. ✔
Mines in Inglish ....wats yours in ?
Just to nitpick terminology, but shouldn't foreigners coming to Europe and changing the way we do things here technically be called "colonizing" instead of "decolonizing" ?
That is a very interesting perspective, have a gold 🌟
Solution to the rankings: drop the standards & accuse the best of structural racism. Voila!
Living as I do in Ruwan's country of origin, I find it strange that none of the very much of a minority of whites here advocate for the kind of multicultural mixing and diversity he promotes in my country of birth. I would go as far as to say that it is actively discouraged, no ads here with mixed race couples. Is it perhaps because they enjoy and promote an homogenous society. I am a guest here, and lucky to be allowed to live here. Not my place to criticise. Mr Uderawage-Perera could well observe similar reticence in Britain.
@Eric Hurt Yup, he was the death of Britain. Much to repair if it's not too late. A purge of our institutions would be a good place to start, unless the poison hasn't spread too far!
Careful Simon from what I hear (mainly from You) Ruwan may be a master debater
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And a massive onanist
Thank you for keeping the arguments open.
UEL has no racial prejudice - except against white working class students.
It was originally a polytechnic, NELP or North East London Polytechnic.
Don't you mean HELP.
@Eric Hurt I studied there, so I should know. They were the North East London Polytechnic all through the seventies till they changed their name to the Polytechnic of East London for two or three years before becoming a university in 1992, thanks to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, when 35 polytechnics across the country were allowed to become universities.
I graduated from the University of East London in 1980. In those days it was the polytechnic of East London. The degrees were awarded by the CNAA(the Council on National Academic Awards) , now sadly defunct. I got a Master of Arts in American History and Politics. In those days the degree subjects had genuine intellectual rigour. Very few got 1st Class Honours, so the coinage has been really devalued and makes the whole thing ridiculous.
As I recall, all the teaching staff were white and of the highest calibre. They seemed to be genuine liberal open minded types. A lot of the students were of the Socialist Workers Party stereotype, although even they were overwhelmingly white. I was one of the handful of older part time students with full time jobs, with wives and children to support, so we kept our more orthodox political views to ourselves.
Why is it not the same for the 100 metre dash!
The UEL was never a secondary school, but was always post-secondary institution, though it only officially became a university in 1992, having been a "Polytechnic" since 1970, and a "Technical Institute" from 1895 to 1970. Since it first appeared in the university rankings, it's always been at or near the bottom.
If I am to be harangued, I cannot think of a single individual who I would choose other than you Simon. It would be like being attacked by a cuddly puppy. Thank you again for your excellent and educating videos.
You are too kind! I cannot offhand think of any time in my life when I have harangued anybody.
The last time I looked, these university rankings were based on research standings and are therefore more a ranking of professors and lecturers than student achievement. I clicked on the good university guide link but couldn’t see an explanation of their methodology.
Yes we can all provide an explanation for this, unfortunately TH-cam will take the answer down ...
If you examined the data more closely you might find that the most successful black students are of African heritage. Mostly because African kids live in two parent households, and they are pushed to do their homework. It's not the ethnicity it's the attitude.
Might or would?
ALL black people are of African heritage!
The local intake clearly isn't all that.
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RuwOuch.
Haven't heard a backhanded compliment that sharp since I asked my mother what she thought of my ex-wife
I would be interested to see the various drop-out rates and the reasons given ...
No doubt the 'race poverty' card would attempt to be used, but I'd like to see independent data ...
The UEL started out as the South-East Essex Technical College, then became the North East London Polytechnic, before becoming what it is now.
True, but originally it was the West Ham Technical Institute.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb I was thinking of the one in Longbridge Road, Barking.
It might be too early for the esteemed professor to react to you're challenge Simon, after all it's early on a weekend, they are probably still in their bed dreaming of a communist utopia.
What is in store when these underachieving graduates are let loose worldwide. With their dumbed down degrees, what harm is this going to do to the centuries old reputation of British university education ? We once taught students pioneering knowledge that lead the world in achievements.
Once is the key word here !!!!
Exactly i have the upmost respect for students young and old who apply themselves
to achieve a degree in their chosen subject , the courses shouldn't be dumbed down
just so under achievers can obtain one and the instigators of such a stupid idea can feel good about themselves
@The Burnley Labour Traitor touche
Why were so many technical colleges converted to universities? Did it achieve anything. I am sure businesses look at which university a potential employee graduated from, like they do here in South Africa .
Great analysis as usual but PLEASE UPGRADE YOUR MICROPHONE AS I FIND IT HARD TO HEAR YOU EVEN WITH MY OWN VOLUME SET TO MAXIMUM!!!
There are a couple of bits of information that I would like to know before committing to any conjecture. The first has to do with comparing the percentages of the demographics of the university populations with the entire population. The second has to do with whether there is an affirmative action process at play. When I started university, the professors would start their classes by having us look at the student to the left and the right and would announce that only one of us three would graduate. Coupled with higher entry requirements, the statistic that only 3 percentage of the entire population would successfully complete a university degree made that statistic understandable at the time. If it is true that there is only 3.5% of the population is "black", and only 3% of those will complete a university degree, the expectation that a higher representation of "black" people suggests something else. Of course, university standards may have dropped since I was a lad. It seems to me that the goal of schools is no longer to pursue knowledge but to pay the salaries of some mediocre talents.
Studies world wide show that academic success is highest among Ashkenazi Jews, followed by East Asians, then whites, and lastly those of sub-Saharan African origin. Bearing in mind that correlation is not causation, this correlates with a well-established measure of cerebral prowess, which I cannot however name. If I did, an algorithm would no doubt remove my comment. It has done before.
This achievement gap is found the world over. The cause is very obvious but very unpalatable. Evolution has created differences, differences in the gene pool, differences in the bodies and brains arising, differences in behavior and capabilities as a result. Woke culture hopes to overcome this by wishing very hard against it and having large numbers agree with each other. But millions of years of evolution cannot be talked over. Its the same as fantasising that your car can be fixed by getting enough people on face book to say it is fixed. It's insanity and we now have it on a societal level.
Why aren’t students from ethnic backgrounds just allowed to award themselves degrees of their choice? They could even be allowed to print the degree at home to save having to make the onerous journey around the corner to the awards ceremony!
It is interesting that many of the students UEL attracts will come form the inner city environs surrounding it. The schools they will have attended will have received substantially higher funding than those in the suburbs and rural location. In some cases inner city schools can receive 50% more funding per pupil per year. Surely they should be receiving the highest levels of state education in the country.
So my question here is, being an asian international student, is it worth joining the University of East London?
`Prior to becoming a University, it used to be called North East London Polytechnic.
Those troublesome facts, looking forward to hearing his explanation!
A national Poll, conducted in India, about 3 years ago, asked the populace to give there opinion, on the years of the British Raj. in India.
The overwhelming majority, looked back with warmth and friendlyness.
Worse yet, when the "graduates" from these low ranked universities become employed then this problem moves to the employers then the public. The employers reputations nosediving and the public suffering.
I've noticed the service in Macdonalds has gone down recently.
So has the BBC ✔
@The Burnley Labour Traitor I hope youre right, but in third world countries businesses simply lower their standards ie child labour, sweat shop labour common amongst western companies where they can get away with it. Or food contamination in third world countries. Maybe the businesses will simply lower standards.
@The Burnley Labour Traitor education has raised overall standards in Africa, in some parts, reducing education would have the opposite effect.
@The Burnley Labour Traitor the problem in university education on its own would be salvageable as you say. However the problem is not just in university education. It affects all of society and from multiple angles. Even our ability to discuss it being limited by the censors.
We have USC here in the states
Just looked up USC (had no idea being from the Old World). University of Southern Commiefornia so no surprise there!
@@hermannhoth6518 there was a big scandal a few years ago with celebrities and politicians kids getting degrees and never having been to class.
@@hermannhoth6518 It was Actress Lori Loughlin the main one that got busted.
@@MrRourk Very interesting Sir. Looking that up too!
I think it used to be North East London Polytechnic. I spent a short time there before going later on to get a full degree from the University of Salford. It did have a lot of faults but it’s all personal opinion. Why do people think Oxford or Cambridge are superior, i suspect that’s inbuilt snobbishness.
Maybe they're trying to copy our MP's quality standards ? blunder along making huge mistakes, talk the talk but don't deliver & pretend you know what you're actually doing !! 🤔
Should have kept the post-92's as Polytechnics, imo.
Hmm. 2 no. Thumbs down and most likely when the video was posted 3 hours ago. For persons that feel the need to offer nothing but the wish to cancel others with a different opinion to theirs, don't tune in and don't feel the need to stalk at 0600 in the morning to deliver your daily thumbs down. Your agenda is clear. You are intolerant and nothing but bullies. I may not agree with everything that is delivered on this channel but it is clear to me that Simon's approach is calm and considered, offering the opportunity to others for debate....This is quite a contrast to many trolls whom only wish to cancel and if these persons occupy positions of trust and responsibilities in academia, I fear for the future of the students in those establishments. I and like many others, support the continued growth of Simon's channel. 👍
In the late 70s I attended a course at Tottenham College. In a toilet cubicle some wag had inscribed on the toilet paper dispenser "Diploma Env. Health. Please take one." Quite.
Trust me, that particular college has gone down hill since the 1970s.
For your information it used to be North East London Polytechnic
Interesting idea , I would be curious about debate.
Feel it would be reduced to name calling.
I like the beach. I had wondered how long it took those sands to collect and be forged from rock to the fine granules they are today.
a relative of mine went to manchester uni not the real one the polytechnic now called a university.. anyway some of the modules were shared with students of other degrees. These lectures were attended by a mob of people with allegiance to the country now run by an ex cricketer and playboy... They sat at the back shouting abuse at lecturers and even throwing things at them. God knows what the lecturers thought or if they dared to report it..
It was middle class white students who went on to design the kit that saved Britain form certain defeat in 1940.
A faultless and informative account, of what most people thought anyway.
It's called the Bell Curve Simon
The truth isn't huranging
@Eric Hurt yes Vikki Pollard
The top-notch universities are also in the position of matriculating students based not on merit/ability, but on some innate characteristics such as race, economic background, or belonging to a minority group.
Regardless of rankings, the top tier institution will still attract the best of the best who will be accepted on more objective academic criteria and will thus go on to perform exceedingly well, regardless if the students without the ability are still awarded degrees for the sake of "social justice, equity, etc".
This last paragraph's scenario, when applied to the lower ranked institutions will cause said schools suffer enormously because not only do you continue admissions based on non-academic criteria, but even the students who do not benefit from this "privilege of lowered expectations" will still generally be those that would not have been accepted at a higher tier school.
When you run this through the chain of 130ish universities in the UK you can see how the soft racism of low expectations combined with the notion that merit and ability is conferred with a piece of paper...the raking will show this.
The higher the ranking of school (based on academic rigor) the less of an impact the lower performing quota admissions will affect the ranking. The lower the academic rigor the more pronounced this effect becomes.
Its akin to if the olympics were to keep the 400 meter run (but reduce the length to 200 meters) and then invite mere mortals to participate and we would be shocked that all-star athletes continue to be first. To go a step further imagine if everyone were given 1st place awards.
Why/how do they strengthen our country but not their own?
Perhaps by coming here, they did.
Did you know there is an advert for the University before your video?
Well said Mr Webb, by the way i quite often feel intimidated by your intellect, think i will seek out some counciling.
I am flattered that you should think so highly of my intellect, but I assure you that it is no higher than average! I don't think that any of the ideas which I express here are new or original. It is more the case that a lot of people think the same way, but do not wish to be blacklisted for saying so out loud.
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb thank you for your reply Mr Webb, being a scot i was indulging in some dry Scottish humour, keep up the excellent work respect from one of the silent majority.
@@johnpark5574 Are you a unionist,the answer may indicate the level of your intellect?
@@georgehetty7857 definitely not sorry to dissapoint.
@Graham Storie not a devotie of sturgeon sorry to dissapoint.
On the one hand appalled by the lowering of standards generally. I can remember having to crawl over hot coals even to get the old "o" levels. As for the others!!! As for further on...lets not go there. On the otherhand we should all be pleased at people getting ANY further education. On the channel it would help the comments community 😀 discover new saxon warlords!!
Simon, your observations perfectly parallel the situation in the American higher education system. Open admissions result in failing results by all measures. The higher the expectations of students for admissions and course performance the higher the outcomes. It does not matter if it is at the grammar school or doctorate level. No country spends more money at all education levels and gets less than the U.S., but the UK is probably very close behind. This will never improve. Look to Eastern Europe for superior higher education.
A first from one of these weak universities is worthless. I graduated from a strong university in the early eighties. There were 120 on our LL.B course in my year. Two firsts. The currency has been devalued.
A debate between Simon Webb and a lecturer from the University of East London.
I can't wait.
Don't harangue him too hard, Simon !
It may be the best thing to close this university down. Perhaps turn it back into a Technical College with emphasis on Vocational careers. But keeping it going as a university just seems pointless. The same applies to London Metropolitan, Thames Valley, and some of the poorer performing universities in cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and up in Scotland.
As it is, the UEL is just the type of university that could become a hotbed for radical Islamist beliefs and views.
The University of South Wales is pretty low in the rankings as well
That's baaaaaaad🐑🤣🤣🤣
130 universities in the UK, sound like 100 too many
I love your logic, Sir.
Maybe you could do a video on universities v polytechnics?
Entitled, 'Not enough university degrees, how to increase this and pretend we're a success.'
University qualifications have lost their value within the work place due to them being "dumbed down". On average "Black" students yet 2.2 or colloquial know as "A Desmond( toto) "
No no no no, Simon.
The UK needs more mathematicians who can't add up, teachers who can't spell, scientists who deal drugs, engineers who fight with machetes, chemists who can boil crystal meth and footballers.
That's what universities are for, innit?
Don’t forget actors who can do whites!
@@georgehetty7857 Historians who insist Anne Boleyn was black. Cos maffs is racist. Splelling is racist. Historey is racist. Studee is racist. Yeah, take that Whitey.
I heard that five percent of children are dyslexic on entering primary school some will get help the others slip through the net teaching a child to read pre school is a huge help
And about 40% come with an anti intellectual mindset or a point blank refusal to do anything except watch TH-cam videos
Simon says "seat of learning " with a straight face!