DDU supporter, teacher and sports fan, Mark McConnell looked at how the burgeoning Equality, Diversity and Inclusion industry is primed to dismantle and reshape our public bodies in its image. EDI bodies like Plan4Sport are committed to finding ‘proof’ to justify more diversity training than in understanding, or addressing, material problems that some groups in […]
DDU academics challenge Advance HE’s approach as ‘divisive’ and ‘risking the racialisation of campus life’.
DDU responds to the CRED report and emphasises the recommendations we would like to be followed through by the government.
Frederick Douglass: “In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.” Robert Burns: “To see Oursels as Others See us!” Get the PDF lesson plan here.
‘Understanding’ does not relieve anyone of the responsibility to condemn the brutal, performative murder of innocent citizens by those committed to a version of Islam that abhors our cherished values of free speech and democracy.
Recently, DDU supporter and lecturer Marie Kawthar Daouda presented a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay which considers the historical development of Laïcité in legal and philosophical terms. She questions whether Laïcité is as universal as some claim, and if it is capable of providing the resources needed for French society to be able to integrate its […]
The discourse surrounding academic decolonisation furnishes today’s intellectual and moralistic justifications for racism. There are different strands of thinking that fall under the umbrella term ‘Decolonising Education’. Some student activists in South Africa want to scrap the existing curriculum outright. Among academics, particularly in the UK, a more moderate claim made is that strategies for decolonisation can […]
