BBC Newsround complaint

The Newsround programme on CBBC, which includes clips of Professor Kehinde Andrews presenting the concept of white privilege as if incontrovertible fact, with no alternative viewpoint offered, breaches the BBC’s own standards. We wrote a letter of complaint. Here’s the correspondence.

DDU Director explains what impartiality in education means and why it’s so necessary

Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert has a new article in Teachwire. She writes: ‘When teachers come down on the side of social justice activism, the distinction between educational goals and the political interests of the teachers in question becomes blurred, breaching the duty of schools to teach impartially.’ Read the full article here.