Posted on 04/28/2016 3:08:54 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
BBC staff will be asked to disclose details of their family income and upbringing, as part of new plans to ensure that the corporation is not dominated by the middle classes. The BBC will announce today that all new employees will be asked to answer a range of questions about their socio-economic background, including whether they were entitled to free school meals as a child, which the broadcaster says will allow it work out whether its workforce reflects modern Britain. The BBC has faced pressure from ministers, during the ongoing talks over the corporation’s new royal charter, to increase the numbers of staff from underrepresented backgrounds, both on-screen and behind the camera.
Labour MP David Lammy is among those who have accused the BBC of dragging its feet on diversity A 2014 report by the government’s Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission found that senior BBC staff were drawn “disproportionately from a narrow range of backgrounds”, with more than a quarter having attended public school. Under the new diversity strategy, which will also include plans for greater on-screen representation of women, disabled people and ethnic minorities, the BBC will announce that it will introduce anonymous applications for the recruitment of most of its backroom positions, meaning that recruiters will not be able to see a candidate’s name or university education. The practice, which the corporation has already implemented for graduate recruitment, alongside companies such as HSBC and KPMG, has been shown to overcome the "unconscious bias" of recruitment staff, and increase the number of candidates from ethnic minority backgrounds who make it through to interview.
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Just FYI: in Britain, the term ‘public school’, actually means a private school. If a male is referred to as a ‘public school boy’, he is being singled out as privileged.
Wow.
The BBC has gone from a full stall to a spin.
Oh well, at least the diction is OK.
For now, that is.
Just like American colleges...
Iow, Pakis.
BBC - where everyone is a token
The UK no longer exists as the once proud nation of its history. The ruling elites have PC’d the entire UK into islam-west.
So basically, you can get a job or be rejected for one if you did or did not partake in the social services when you were a child ?
Yup. That’s socialism.
Karl Marx HATED the middle class.
He wanted them DESTROYED.
And he told his followers to take over the media.
This is working exactly as it’s supposed too.
And you middle class Marxists just love it. :)
Ungland, feh...
I wonder if there is some Britain-American bedwetting
liberal commission which meets to decide and coordinate
the next international social and economic crisis.
How is it that the liberals in both countries get their
panties in a twist at the same time over the same dumbassed
issues?
Positions must be filled by people qualified for that particular job.
This isn't a military boot camp barracks, where it's pick one and order him to some job.
You don't drop a dishwasher in an Air Traffic Controller's operating chair and tell him to get to work...
The Falklands, Gibraltar and a few islands in the Pacific and Caribbean.
Nah, gays, lesbians etc.
Not true, although I get your point.
I’m sure this will improve PBS programming, and they will start attracting a different, larger audience. It might even add a little “Jerry Springer” to their telethons, which would be an improvement.
Or more simply, middle class guilt about not enough working class young folk.
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