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It's still an amazing University and City, however I hope this social engineering is noted by those who rank universities and that Oxford gets what it deserves for being so stupid.
The women and men still both get the same amount of time for the tests!
Judging by the responses here, a lot of Americans are failing news comprehension.
Of course, a person who takes The Daily Caller seriously and doesn't check the original source - well, it doesn't matter how long it takes you to read the Caller's article.
"Oxford University exam times were increased in a bid to improve the low scores of women, it has emerged.
Students taking maths and computer science examinations in the summer of 2017 were given an extra 15 minutes to complete their papers, after dons ruled that "female candidates might be more likely to be adversely affected by time pressure". There was no change to the length or difficulty of the questions." Oxford University gives women more time to pass exams
Read it over and over and over, until it sinks in - all students were given an extra 15 minutes, not just the female students.
Yes, ALL students were given an extra 15 minutes!
Why?
Well, as it says in the article, "exam times were increased in a bid to improve the low scores of women,..." and "female candidates might be more likely to be adversely affected by time pressure".
That seems to clarify the issue rather nicely!
It's still an amazing University and City, however I hope this social engineering is noted by those who rank universities and that Oxford gets what it deserves for being so stupid.
Sorry. Allowing all students 15 more minutes to finish the exam is not social engineering.
And absolutely no one who hires mathematicians and computer scientists is going to care.
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The women and men still both get the same amount of time for the tests!
Antonia Sir, an undergraduate representative of Oxford Women in Computer Science, told the Telegraph: "I am uneasy about schemes to favour one gender over another.
They changed many school GCSE exams to course work projects that boys don't do well in, and have invested more money in inner city schools where there are more ethnic minorities, the sad truth is that the group that does the least well is working class white boys, but don't let that stop them carrying on with this mad social engineering.
So you two think women can not compete on equal footing? Why do you hold women in such low esteem?
They DID compete on an equal footing. The exam times were extended 15 minutes for everyone.
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