Universities return to aptitude exams to keep Arabs out

[DuctapeFatwa]

There's no politically correct spin to put on it,
and the facts speak for themselves: As soon as
Israel's top university administrators noticed
that the big winners from admissions policy
changes were not Jewish youngsters from low-income
towns, but rather Arabs, they reverted back to the
old admissions system. .

To prevent a heavy influx of Arab students in
fields such as dental medicine and occupational
therapy, the university instituted what one
department head described as "revisions" in its
admissions policy. "We set the entry
age for studies at 20, instead of 18, and we
also gave added weight to personal interviews
with candidates," the department head said in
describing the "revisions." The Arab candidates
do not serve in the Israel Defense Forces, so
the previous minimum entry age, 18, worked to
their advantage, while increasing the
importance of personal interviews worked to the
disadvantage of Arab candidates, partly because
the interviews are not conducted in their
native language. As a result, the "revisions"
helped the university departments maintain the
same Jewish-Arab demographics that had been
obtained in previous years.

The universities did little yesterday to conceal
the fact that admissions policies are being
altered to benefit Jewish candidates...In a euphemistic idiom, it wrote: "since
the number of places available in university
enrollment has not risen, the acceptance of one
population
nudges out another population " ....

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/365572.html

[Jim Sagle]

1. Some jokes just write themselves.

[Violet_Crumble]

2. And some don't...

So you'll have to explain what's so funny about university admissions policy being changed so as to discriminate against one group over another....


Violet...

[Jim Sagle]

3. Aptitude tests DON'T discriminate. That's the point. DUH!!!!!!

[edzontar]

5. This is a known non-fact...as years of evidence from the US shows..

Aptitude tests can be slanted to keep certain people out, and HAVE been, for generations, in the US.

[Saudade]

4. Interesting

Imagine the outcry if one of the more or less enlightened democracies of America or Europe implemented this sort of racist testing regime.