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Don’t Divide Us:  Advance HE and the Race Equality Charter for universities
Don’t Divide Us:  Advance HE and the Race Equality Charter for universities

The Race Equality Charter (REC), overseen by Advance HE, is the product of its attempt to ‘do something’ about racism because, in the words of Chief Executive Alison Johns, the sector has ‘a legal and moral duty’ to do so. No one would dispute the need for universities to do something about racism, but the extent of the problem and how to oppose it are (and always have been) questions for academics to address, not for bureaucratic, partisan prescription.

Don’t Divide Us:  Advance HE and the Race Equality Charter for universities
DDU Statement on ‘The Black Nursery Manager’
DDU Statement on ‘The Black Nursery Manager’

DDU Head of Education Strategy Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert responds to The Telegraph's story about 'The Black Nursery.'

DDU Statement on ‘The Black Nursery Manager’
ANNOUNCEMENT – DDU is Recruiting an Advisory Board
ANNOUNCEMENT – DDU is Recruiting an Advisory Board

Over the last couple of years Don’t Divide Us (DDU), a grassroots organisation, has been punching above its weight with successes in raising issues in the media and with politicians. To capitalise on this and to move to a more professional footing we are in the process of appointing new members to the team.

ANNOUNCEMENT – DDU is Recruiting an Advisory Board
An Open Letter to Brighton and Hove City Council from Bola Anike and Don’t Divide Us
An Open Letter to Brighton and Hove City Council from Bola Anike and Don’t Divide Us

BHCC cannot and must not be allowed to marginalise, misrepresent or silence the voices of Black and ethnic minority parents and residents who oppose their anti-racist schools strategy.

An Open Letter to Brighton and Hove City Council from Bola Anike and Don’t Divide Us
DDU Responds to Department for Education Guidelines on Political Impartiality in Schools
DDU Responds to Department for Education Guidelines on Political Impartiality in Schools

DDU believe the government can do more to prevent race based indoctrination in schools.

DDU Responds to Department for Education Guidelines on Political Impartiality in Schools
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Newsletter 2021-07-23: DDU CERD report event / Di Angelo heart-broken / Baroness Falkner speaks up / Oxford dons’ tantrums / Dead White Men / Can we fix hate crime laws?

What We’ve Been Up To On Thursday evening, DDU hosted a successful event, ‘Is the UK systemically racist?’, in the ...
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Education and Democratic Nationalism

At a recent Don't Divide Us Academic Group event, Professor Elizabeth Rata argued that: In the end a nation has ...
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In Defence of Science – Academics in New Zealand Speak Out!

It shouldn't be controversial for academics to affirm a belief in the universality of science, or that indigenous knowledge is ...
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Newsletter 2021-07-30: Parents Voices / Uni-think / Teachers’ authority / Pyongyang, USA / Union Stamped / Competing rights / NHS privilege / Reality gap / What the Hayek?!

What We’ve Been Up To DDU has launched the Parents Voices Project to allow parents alarmed by the new brand ...
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Utopian Dreams & Totalitarian Nightmares: the Coerced Morality of Identity Politics

At the root of the identitarian Left’s politics is a form of self-contradictory morality that demolishes the presumption of innocence ...
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Newsletter 2021-08-06: Undiverse thinking in the academy / Colour complexity / What a Geordie Boer! / All aboard the Caliphate express / Security makes (arts) cowards

What We’ve Been Up To Don’t Divide Us hosted a lively session on the Sewell Report at the Battle of ...
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National Education Union

Hollowing of Democracy in the NEU

DDU is delighted that Paul Embery has won his case against the Fire Brigade Union for unfair dismissal because of ...
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Newsletter 2021-08-13: Knotty professors / Manufacturing dissent / Currying racism / Macro-aggressions / Knife crime denial / Met Police bad faith / Un-British Sea Power

What We’ve Been Up To DDU hosted a screening of Martin Durkin's The Great American Race Game at the Screen ...
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Newsletter 2021-08-20: AWOL over Afghanistan / Protecting racial slurs / Cynical business / Kate Clanchy / US police division / Professing to Madam Butterfly / Drake canards

What We’ve Been Up To CALLING PARENTS: We’d love to hear from parents who have experience of their children’s schools ...
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Newsletter 2021-08-27: Statue stupidity / Brave Josephine / Black and white history / Bowdlerising the Bard / Cowardly unis on Netflix / Dancing on pinheads / Kerr crash

What We’ve Been Up To Are you a teacher with questions or concerns about the educational implications of new active ...
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“Is There Still Room for Debate?”

With the rise of an ideology that claims to be anti-racist but brooks no dissent, Andrew Sullivan at the New ...
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The Dangerous Logic of Anti-Racism

Tomiwa Owolade at Unherd considers the dangerous shortcomings of today’s anti-racists’ obsession with structural racism which, he argues, leaves other ...
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The Great American Race Game – A Review by DDU Supporter Clare Page

‘This is the story of the most cynical political game in history…’ says a knowing, male, English voice, over the ...
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T M Murray Reviews Göran Adamson’s latest book ‘Masochistic Nationalism’

Nationalism’s Identical Twin Enchants Westerners with the Lure of the Exotic Swedish sociologist Göran Adamson’s latest book is about two ...
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The NEU Approach to Decolonising Education Promises Discontent and Educational Failure

In December 2019, the National Education Union (NEU) held an inaugural decolonising education national conference.  With over 200 attendees, the ...
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For Equality, Against the Race Equality Charter – Don’t Divide Us Responds To Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter

Download a PDF of the report here. Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter  provides a framework through which universities are to  ...
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