Below two DDU supporters argue why many universities are wrong to uncritically embrace the Universities UK Report, ‘Tackling Racial Harassment in Higher Education’. A personal response from Howard Sherwood, graphic designer and DDU supporter Following the publication of the Universities UK (UUK) report, many predicted that it would be adopted by higher education establishments as […]
The Universality of Literature- A Response to Calls to Decolonise It
Earlier this year, PGCE lecturer, Lesley Nelson-Addy, wrote in Britain’s leading professional publication for English teachers: The ‘new’ GCSE curriculum is Anglocentric and epistemically violent: it uses knowledge as a weapon. Not solely because of the removal of the Steinbeck classic, Of Mice and Men – a book most of us grew to enjoy […]