Meghan Markle to ‘Decolonise curriculum’ in bid to end ‘male, pale and stale’ universities
Meghan Markle has voiced her support for a campaign aiming to “decolonise the curriculum” by ensuring there are more black
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Black pupils’ schooling ‘dumbed down over special needs’
Many black pupils in England are having their education dumbed down after being wrongly identified as having one of a
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Black history curriculum to be piloted in Bristol
A school curriculum designed to teach children about Bristol’s black history is to be introduced following a series of public
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US fake university: India anger after students arrested
India has made a diplomatic protest to the US after 129 Indian students were arrested for enrolling in a fake
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Britain’s first female black headteacher
In 1969 Yvonne Conolly became Britain’s first female black headteacher. Arriving from Jamaica in the early 60s she had worked
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Nigeria universities: Where students don’t know if they will graduate
The futures of more than a million Nigerian university students are on hold as a lecturers’ strike drags on less
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‘I’m mixed-race, is Cambridge University right for me?’
Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. Cambridge is the fourth-oldest surviving university in the world. Cambridge has
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London state school secures 41 Oxbridge offers
“Both of my mums were so excited,” says Dorcas Shodeinde. “First I rang my foster mum and then I rang
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South African maths whizz answers complex arithmetic questions in seconds
South African ten-year-old Sibahle Zwane is a maths whizz who has gained fame on social media by doing incredible arithmetic
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I exposed racism at my university and got suspended
Student union officer Chloe Long shared images taken at a Lancaster University white t-shirt social event. Members of a university
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Improve wellbeing and reduce social isolation through volunteering in 2019
National reading charity Beanstalk is urging more people to consider becoming a reading helper in 2019 to not only help
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Christian Wade: Rugby ignoring black state school kids
One of the most famous black players in the Premiership says rugby union isn’t doing enough to get ethnic minority
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How Nigeria’s elite avoid ‘bad education’
In our series of letters from African writers, journalist Sola Odunfa reflects on a controversial proposal to ban the children
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Ethnic minority academics earn less than white colleagues
When Meenakshi Sarkar landed a job as a teaching fellow at Leeds University after a successful career in business in
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The Bach choir shares joy of singing with school children
The Bach Choir outreach programme, ‘Vocalise!’ this year involves almost 1,000 school children who sing for the joy of singing.
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