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| Culzie | Date: Tuesday, 2014-03-04, 8:31 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Foreign student numbers set to triple at Queen’s. 4 March 2014
vast increase in the number of students from outside the British Isles is planned for Queen’s University Belfast.
That is one of the first messages from its new vice-chancellor Professor Patrick Johnston, who has set himself the target of boosting enrolments from outside the UK and Ireland to as much as a fifth of the entire student body – virtually triple today’s figure.
He aims to achieve this in six to seven years.
The Londonderry-born cancer specialist also defended Queen’s standing in educational league tables, and his own sizeable salary.
Speaking yesterday during his first day on the job, he pledged that one of his main aims is to make the university more “international” by forging closer links with Europe, China and Brazil.
And in Northern Ireland there will be a big change to the make-up of the students.
“Round about seven per cent, roughly, of our students are international students currently,” he said.
“My view is we should expand that to somewhere around about 15 to 20 per cent.
“They enhance the experience our students get in terms of their education because they’re being educated with people from different cultures and all over the world.”
It is also “very good for our economy”, he added, with around £20,000 spent annually in the Northern Irish economy by each foreign student.
In 2006 the university joined the prestigious Russell Group – a collection of 24 institutions across the UK. But it is one of the few members of that group not to appear in the top-200 list of global universities, published by the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Prof Johnston said: “In UK terms in other ways it is actually well up the rankings. League tables are league tables. They have an importance, but you have to be careful about what’s actually going into those.”
He said that according to the QS listings, “the worldwide rankings that most universities would use”, Queen’s stands at between 170 and 180.
“But at the end of the day this is not about league tables,” he added. “This is about a culture of ambition.”
His annual salary stands at £249,000; more than £100,000 higher than that of the Prime Minister.
This, he said, was something that was determined by the university’s remuneration board, adding: “I believe it’s a very fair salary for the leadership that I am going to give this institution going forward, based on what I’ve already done in the medical school and in cancer research.”
See Morning View, page 14
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news....5912042
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| RSAUB | Date: Friday, 2014-03-07, 7:12 PM | Message # 2 |
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| While I believe that skilled immigrants do have a positive impact on our economy, in demographic terms in particularly in the inner City areas of South Belfast the added influx of thousands a foreign students will be a disaster for an area that is already being over run.
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| Culzie | Date: Saturday, 2014-03-08, 0:00 AM | Message # 3 |
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| Spot on. Its got out of a hand and the likes of this man and other upper middle-classes are the people bringing all this about. They sit in their ivory towers pontificating about what should and will happen.
Watched Question Time last night and one man in the audience who had been complaining about the foreigners coming into his area was so exasperated with the panel that he got up, put on his coat, and walked out. Never ever saw that happening before on that programme, and its been going for a helluva lot of years. The man was complaining that he couldn't get a house, but those coming into the country could. But those on the panel were on a different planet. They had no interest in what he was saying and the usual put-down for anyone not fitting in with their prejudices.
Talking to a neighbour today and I mentioned about the big ship which has just arrived at H&W for repairs. He worked there, and sometimes in the past had got a bit of a turn when work came in. But not now. He told me that its all foreigners Poles etc who are working there on it. Then you get these people saying the indigenous people don't want to work. Maybe true of some, but there are plenty who want to work but they won't take them on. Same as the man with no home. Everything is done to suit the foreigner.
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| RSAUB | Date: Friday, 2014-03-14, 10:46 AM | Message # 4 |
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| I've heard this argument that locals don't want to work. When I worked in a meat factory in the middle of County Antrim. I met men who were travelling 80-120 mile round trips for minimum wage employment, all a them local men. Some travelling from the County Down; North Coast, County Londonderry and Belfast, many of them had to work 60-70 hours a week, just to earn 180-200 quid after their fuel costs were deducted from their wage packets. Yet no-one gives a damn about the true working classes who are having to work 70 hours a week and spend a few hours travelling each day to work to earn a few quid.
The reality is mass immigration means a flooded labour market, which boasts up rental accommodation prices and brings down wages and all workers rights and benefits like time and a half and double time go out the window as does the amount of full time employment actually available as companies now employ part time workers as it works out more cost effective for them. It's sad times that we live in, and those who are suffering are the genuine working classes who want to work or do work and their families many of whom's kids education are being effected by the influx of third world immigrants into the schools that these working class kids attend and our health service particularly our maternity departments are stretched to breaking point but these are just symptoms of the catastrophe that awaits us our are grandkids when we or they end up a minority in our own areas and eventually in our own Country. It's already happened in London, In Belfast in 2012 over 20% of all births were to a foreign born mother.
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