Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) academics remain an extremely small minority across UK universities, particularly in senior positions, a recent study has found. The organisation Advance HE, formerly known as the Equality Challenge Unit charity, recorded statistics for the 2016-17 academic year. Annual reports are collated with the objective of ensuring the aims of it’s…
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UEA academic says parties neglected identity-based violence
A human rights expert at UEA has suggested that identity-based violence was a major issue that was neglected in the general election manifestos of all major political parties. Dr Kate Ferguson, a researcher from the school of History is the author of a recently published report which focused on the pledges of various UK political…
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SOAS SU making positive change by dropping white philosophers
The campaign run by the SOAS student union has from the outset been predictably misrepresented by the mainstream media as censorship. In fact it is quite the opposite: the central demand is not to have these white philosophers removed from the curriculum, but to be able to study them from a more critical, anti-colonial angle,…