Black and ethnic minorities still have mountains to climb in higher education

At least do something to get rid of this status quo! I'm very very very frustrated. Quality has no value, color is all!

This article assumes that all persons aspire to have the top position in their chosen endeavour. However many people do not want the responsibility associated with being the CEO, and are happy to work diligently at a lower level. Trying to equalise the numbers means that some people who are being promoted are not capable of a satisfactory performance i.e. the Peter Principal. If a person really wants the top job, then they should be achieving that through their own efforts, rather than being promoted just to equalise the numbers.

A similar situation obtains in South Africa. Whereas the majority of the population is African, they are a very small minority in our universities. In the faculties of Engineering, the number of African South Africans is miniscule. Sadly, our government department of higher education does not seem to be bothered by this. I have written to them about it, but they simply did not even reply to my email message. I asked myself, if native African South African engineers do not participate in the education of their children, who do they expect to teach and train them? Most of the universities faculties of Engineering are managed and manned by Africans from outside if South Africa. I do not say the latter must go, but where are the natives? Are they not concerned? How can they be oblivious towards what is going on at the universities? It is actually a shocking situation. I invite native African South Africans to look deep into this. I challenge the department of higher education to check this. I presume someone there does read THE articles. Have a happy day.