The Telegraph’s coverage of proposals at Cambridge university to decolonise the English curriculum faced backlash from students, academics, and the media for inaccuracy and misconstruction. On Wednesday 25 October, The Telegraph published an article entitled ‘Student forces Cambridge to drop white authors’, after Cambridge University’s English department began discussing plans to include more postcolonial and BAME…
Film
Moana and the wave of representation
Needless to say, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who isn’t aware of Disney films, and you’d probably encounter equal difficulty trying to find someone who hasn’t heard of (or fantasized about being) a Disney princess. Whether you always wanted to be a mermaid, like Ariel, or were incredibly studious like Belle, Disney princesses…
Featured Posts, News
UEA scores red in university free speech rankings
Online political magazine Spiked.com has given the University of East Anglia a red ranking in the Free Speech University Rankings (FSUR), a significant change from the green ranking it awarded in 2015. The website surveyed all British universities and their students unions and ranked them using a traffic light system. Red universities, such as UEA,…
News
Ethnic minorities underepresented at UEA
A study into staff numbers in higher education institutions has revealed that ethnic minorities continue to be under-represented among the senior levels of university management. The Equality in Higher Education 2015 study, published last week by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) reports that there are just 20 UK-born black or minority ethnic deputy or pro…
Featured Posts, News
Apology from the men’s hockey teams
[su_spoiler title=”Hockey team disciplined after bus antics” style=”simple” icon=”chevron-circle” anchor=”Comment”]An investigation by the Union of UEA Students’s has concluded the UEA men’s hockey team broke the union’s code of conduct. Concrete reported on 20th October that the club were under investigation following the emergence of video footage which appeared to show members of the hockey…
Creative Writing, OldVenue
Creative Writing – 3rd November
It’s hard to ignore the extraordinary displays of colour in autumn that confront us throughout October and November. On the worst of the grey days, it is sometimes these colours that make the wind and the rain all seem worth it. Likewise, it is the vibrancy and diversity of cultures at UEA which make it…
Features
How well does UEA represent you?
From 19th to 23rd October, UEA celebrated Asexual (Ace) Awareness week. This was the first time the week has been publicised on campus, with events taking place each day to heighten people’s awareness of asexuality as well as engagement with UEA’s Media Collective and UEA Publishers. To cut a long story short, it was kind…
News
Universities have an “unacceptable lack of diversity in their leadership and senior staff’
Chuka Umunna, Shadow Business Secretary and senior Labour politician, marked Black History Month last week by delivering a passionate speech in Brixton. In the speech, he not only alluded to ‘forces in British politics’ which he felt could ‘undermine our Great British values of openness, tolerance and respect’, but spoke in no uncertain terms about…
Latest Comments