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.
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.
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.
Speak out time: Representing Races
In the second of our ‘Speak Out Time’ series a finance industry insider gives us their perspective on the ‘unconscious bias training’ many within the industry are now forced to undertake.
Microaggressions: In the Eye of the Beholder
Carole Sherwood introduces the concept of microaggressions, explores what critics have to say about them and finds out why they have created such controversy. Read on…
Microaggressions: In the Eye of the Beholder
by Carole Sherwood, psychologist Cambridge University was recently embroiled in controversy over a Report & Support’ website launched for the anonymous reporting of microaggressions by students and staff. The university claimed this was to encourage a ‘safe, welcoming and inclusive community’ but academics expressed concern that they could be reported for ‘offences’ such as raising […]
Joanna Williams of Cieo dissects The Woke University
In The Woke University, Joanna Williams argues that this institutional model has replaced educational goals with a mission to inculcate particular values
Prejudice Under The Microscope: The Implicit Association Test (Part II)
The latest report from the team at Minding the Campus from part of the White Fragility Symposium, provides a forensic account of the flaws in concepts central to the ‘white fragility’ assertion: Supporters of the ‘unconscious racism’ thesis essentially argue that negative associations held by whites about non-whites, as revealed by the race IAT: (a) […]