Welsh government offers £5,000 more to student teachers from ethnic minorities
https://www.thetimes.com/article/d2e9df88-0466-4ad1-a53c-eff20749227c?shareToken=8372463ee3e60cf79dfbaccef6586f28
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Welsh government offers £5,000 more to student teachers from ethnic minorities
https://www.thetimes.com/article/d2e9df88-0466-4ad1-a53c-eff20749227c?shareToken=8372463ee3e60cf79dfbaccef6586f28
Posted by PsychoSwede557
28 Comments
I clicked the link and read the entire article because the headline made me think ‘nah, this can surely not be legal/real.’
Silly me.
I feel the DE&I bait headlines are everywhere right now, but they really are genuine.
Do they do the same for male applicants, noting they are hugely under represented in the teaching profession?
Can you imagine the outcry if this was the other way around or males were getting more than females? Just asking…
That’s fine, just say you are 1/16th whatever. There’s no mechanism for you to prove it and if they start saying you are not the right shade or percentage then that’s an easy discrimination lawsuit.
> The Welsh government said “We are committed to increasing the number of teachers from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds so that our young people can recognise themselves and their own experiences within their leaders.”
I thought we were supposed to be promoting equality and diversity in society?
An equal and truly diverse society would see us demonstrating to our young people that they may be taught by teachers of any race, and not necessarily races which they “recognise themselves… within”?
This seems farcical. Just hire the best people for the job. Those will be the best people to nurture our young people, not the ones that are simply there to tick the quota checkboxes.
Paying someone less for the same job is the epitome of institutional racism.
Same as West Yorkshire Police only recruiting BAME officers. Pathetic and stupid.
As a Black person I’m confused. While reform is on the rise ( I am obviously no fan of them) , the left … does this? Wales doesn’t need more people of colour as teachers. If employment is fair and you teach the young children about diverse stories and acceptance. What’s the problem? Wales is less diverse than England . It’s 90% white . We’ve got bigger fish to fry
We must admit our country is institutionally racist against its native people
This is how nutters like Trump get elected. I wish they’d pull back on this nonsense but they clearly don’t see the writing on the wall.
Police now teachers, government posts will be mainly non white in a country which is predominantly white according to official figures.
2 tier policing, 2 tier teaching but no tears for white people
Discriminating someone’s pay due to their ethnicity and race? There’s a naughty -ist ending word that’s on the tip on my tongue…
World’s getting weird boyos
Obviously racist if true, I feel like lawsuits are coming!
Oh that thing we keep getting told never happens, happening again!
It’s that thing happening again that everybody says doesn’t happen or argue it being completely fair.
I wonder what effect having a minority teacher actually makes, in my south London school I only ever had 1 white English teacher for a class (I’m not white) and I can’t say my teachers ethnicity would ever mean anything for me. Not one was where I was from, what mattered the most was their method of teaching and likability. I’d rather government money be spent better.
Male teachers are a minority, do they count?
As a ginger male, I best get 90k
The excesses of the left were responsible for Trump and the UK is heading the same way. The overcorrection is coming and it won’t be good for anyone.
“We are committed to increasing the number of teachers from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds so that our young people can recognise themselves and their own experiences within their leaders.”
Peak clown polemics. Saying that in order to be “recognised” young people must be taught by teachers who happen to have the same skin colour as them is just textbook racism.
This country has gone completely mad.
No-one us willing to talk about how equitable this is for people from underprivileged and underrepresented background, all they want is booo, no equality.. if only you understand that equality only is fair if everyone is standing in the same level, but they are not due to historical discrimination, racism and opression. But yeah moan about how this is not equality and never think or read about how this is equitable..
I’ve noticed left wing organisations are very quick to file discrimination suits against behaviour like this. It seems all the right want to do is bitch and moan about this kind of thing without actually bothering to challenge it.
Are they now trying to actively push racial tensions on purpose?
Maybe people from ethnic minorities have more sense than to work in a horrible job..
As usual the times are being really disingenuous with this as white people can get the same grant (as long as they are under represented) here it is if you want to make your own mind up, I wonder why they didn’t link to it.
https://www.gov.wales/ethnic-minority-initial-teacher-education-ite-incentive-2023-2024-guidance-students
> The incentive scheme forms part of the Welsh Labour administration’s “Anti-racist Wales” action plan, which aims to move the country “significantly towards being an anti-racist nation by 2030”.
Seriously are so fucking stupid, this shit has the opposite unintended effect
Now I don’t know my football but does anyone remember that beautiful video of the famous footballer being reunited with his old school teacher ? Were he took his hat off and started crying giving him a hug ? The footballer is black and the teacher white and the footballer said he was a fantastic teacher that helped him ? The footballer as a child didn’t care about the race of his teacher just that his teacher cared about him and believed in him and that stayed with him all these years later. What they are doing here will destroy stories like this and will cause true division. This all feels intentional.
How is this not discrimination if you pay one person more than another based on the colour of your skin?
Posting this here from my comment on the Wales sub.
It looks like this scheme has been on the cards for a while and had pushback from Andrew RT Davies opposed back in November – https://nation.cymru/news/senedd-tories-back-leaders-attack-on-bame-teacher-scheme/
“The Welsh Government currently offers several incentive schemes to attract and retain teachers from all backgrounds.
A £5,000 incentive is available to students who are studying to teach through the medium of Welsh or to teach Welsh as a subject.
There is also an Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Priority Subject Incentive Scheme which provides a £15,000 grant to students who study on a postgraduate ITE programme in priority subjects.
We asked Mr Davies if he is opposed to these incentives too – or if he is only opposed to initiatives for BAME people.
The most senior Tory in Wales did not answer our question.”
Sounds like this is just a scheme to get more ethnic people teaching to promote “anti-racism” and there seems to be plenty of schemes available to non-ethnic people, as you would expect given Wales’ pro education policies many have benefitted from in the past.
As far as I can see this is just another story to drag out from nearly a year ago to push right wing narratives into the zeitgeist. Which actually stands up given the two outlets I could find reporting on this “new story” is The Times and GB News – both renowned centrist news outlets……
So, the Welsh “Anti rascist policy” includes offering non-white applicants £5,000 more than white applicants?