Ethnic Minority Student Teachers Offered £5,000 More Than White Peers to Train Under ‘Anti-Racist’ Scheme
Ethnic minority students have been offered £5,000 more than their white classmates to become teachers in Wales as part of an ‘anti-racist’ scheme. The Mail has more.
All training teachers are eligible to receive a £15,000 grant from the Welsh Government if they specialise in a subject most needed in the country’s schools.
This includes biology, chemistry, physics, IT, design and technology, Welsh, modern foreign languages as well as maths.
As part of the Labour government’s ‘Anti-racist Wales’ action plan an additional £5,000 is available to individuals who are from ethnic minorities.
The scheme aims to progress Wales “significantly towards being an anti-racist nation by 2030”. It follows calls to ban dogs from the countryside by Climate Cymru BAME to make the outdoors “anti-racist”.
A government spokesman previously insisted it was not planning to act on the proposal compiled by environmental group, and dogs “would continue to be welcomed in the hills of Wales”.
It comes after Wales’s score in the previous 2022 international Pisa assessments fell to their lowest on record for 15 year-old’s in science, maths and reading. The Celtic nation also landed last among all UK countries.
Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education Natasha Ashgar has since hit out at the scheme amid what she called a “recruitment and retention crisis” in Wales.
She said Wales’s Labour Government should be focusing its sights on getting the best maths teachers in schools, “regardless of their ethnicity”.
“This additional funding for ethnic minority maths teachers increases the total grant to £25,000 — significantly higher than what is available to teachers from non-ethnic backgrounds,” she told the Times,
“With the alarming number of mathematics teachers leaving the profession and so few being recruited, surely the Welsh Labour Government should be offering equal funding for all mathematics teachers.”
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Racist “anti-racism” – And no parasitic human rights lawyers anywhere to be seen.
I thought maths was racist?!?
I can’t keep up…
I definitely found algebra offensive.😳
According to this piece, racism is legal now, so that’s fine. Ever get the feeling you’re being played?
Just as Newton’s Principia is a rape manual (according to some batty feminist academic a few years ago).
Surely to God even the taffies pushing this crap must realise that what they are doing is in itself racist? Sowing greater division?
Quite staggering even by today’s Orwellian standards.
So all a prospective teaching student has to do to score an extra 5k is repeat: Is it because I is black?
Since whites are (and probably always have been) the global minority, ttey should be getting the xtra cash.
Surely a white person could identify as black. Job done!
This is Cardiff shit, not the valleys. Cardiff is a Muslim capital.
Getting the best maths teachers regardless of ethnicity isn’t the issue. I find it sad that maths teachers seem to be losing faith. I didn’t like maths at school but developed a taste for it later in life. There is no understanding of our reality without the mathematical element. We are taught that mathematicians tend to be young and burn out quickly. This is only because we have adopted a generally lazy attitude towards it as a population. In our time numbers are seen as a tyranny. Nothing else will bloom without the numbers blooming first. And then we have a truly fruitful future. The numbers will be put back in their rightful place and loved eternally. This is the next stage of our development.
Surely every teacher is from an ethnic background of some sort?
Tut tut. Too much logic. Go back to the indoctrination camp. Do not pass GO.
Are white English, or Scottish, Irish etc. people a minority in Wales.
Hypocrites are actors, and actors perform scripts.
Is Welsh really a subject that’s most needed in Welsh schools?
How can teaching pupils to speak a language that no one else in the world speaks help Wales in an increasingly globalised world?
It seems the Establishment across the UK is deliberately trying to provoke the native white population into “fighting back.”
That’s the general idea.
Are the English considered to be an ethnic minority group in Cymru
Wales, a principality with a rich culture, history and a language it spends a fortune trying to preserve, where they discourage tourism and second home ownership.
And yet they welcome immigrants that wish to destroy the culture, society and language the Welsh are so proud of.
It really makes no sense.
Doesn’t the race relations act 1968 state that it’s illegal to pay an individual less due to their ethnicity. Therefore this policy is as unlawful as it get?