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.
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.’
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.
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.
NEW – DDU Case Study Exposes Brighton’s Racial Literacy 101 Training
DDU’s full account of the failures of democratic policy making that enabled Brighton and Hove City Council to introduce racially divisive teacher training.
DDU Responds to Brighton and Hove City Council on Divisive Racial Literacy Training
Don’t Divide Us doesn’t consider Brighton and Hove County Council’s (BHCC) efforts to remove certain overt references to Critical Race Theory (CRT) from their anti-racism policy as any sort of victory. This is merely a case of scrubbing the label off the tin while the contents remain exactly the same.
DDU Comment – It’s just not cricket
In the wake of the Rafiq vs Yorkshire County Cricket Club tribunal, DDU reflect on the questions raised by the case.
Speak out Time: ‘Expect Respect’ – why I said ‘No’.
In the first of our ‘Speak Out Time’ series Professor Ellie Lee, University of Kent, gives us her perspective on the ‘Expect Respect’ module students are expected to take. She explains her opposition to the imposition of Critical Race Theory on students at the University of Kent.
The Race Equality Charter will re-racialise UK universities
The Race Equality Charter threatens to re-racialise UK universities, writes DDU supporter Philip Hammond.
Don’t Divide Us public discussion: Is the UK systemically racist?, 22/07/2021
Two reports published this year have drawn completely different conclusions about the causes of remaining racial disparities in UK society.