Davidm wrote:
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:44:08 +0100, wrote:
From "The Week":
University tutors are being told not to mark down work for spelling
mistakes because insisting on correct English could be seen as
“homogenous north European, white, male, elite”. The Times says several
institutions are adopting “inclusive assessments” and Hull University
says it will “challenge the status quo” by dropping the requirement for
a high level of written and spoken English.
If they can't write a decent CV they won't even get a job interview to
show how smart they might be, (by decent I mean not full of
grammatical or spelling errors).
At interview they will also be judged on their ability to communicate
effectively, which means a decent standard of spoken english (or other
language relevant to the county they are in).
Modern companies accept electronic submissions
of resumes.
Computers sort through the resumes.
A smart submitter, lards up the resume with
keywords, raising the weighting of the resume.
"Know Powerpoint, Excel, MSWord"
The resume then no longer follows a humanities
professors idea of a good time. It looks like
a sporge web page on the Internet.
There will have to be some other examination, to
determine literacy.
IBM was ahead of its time, when it instituted
"entrance exams" for prospective employees. Not
trusting a transcript, that's what you do. Make
a separate filtering step. The few former IBM people
I've run into, will not tell you what goes on
in that exam.
Paul