One in four BAME people in Britain want ‘name-blind’ university applications
More than a quarter of Bame Britons believe removing names from university applications would widen access, compared to less than a sixth of white Britons,
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Racism in UK universities is blocking BAME academics from the top
erhaps one of the most harmful myths about British universities is that they are meritocratic and free from racism. Senior managers
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Black academics bear brunt of university work on race equality
Earlier this year, Maxine Thomas-Asante asked her university if she could pause her work supporting black, Asian and minority ethnic
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Record ethnic minority students at Oxford
Oxford University’s latest admissions figures show the highest ever proportion of places for ethnic minority students – at 18%. There
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Christian education in the spotlight – The Band Family by Tayo Fatunla
What does Christian education have to offer the world? Firstly, it should develop more people who walk their talk. Secondly,
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Young Black borrowers more likely to fall behind on student debt
Young black student loan borrowers are four times as likely to fall behind on their payments than white ones, according
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Boston museum sorry for racist ‘no watermelons’ remark
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has apologised after a teacher alleged her group of pupils suffered racist language and
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Students ‘may have been unfairly deported’ over English test cheat claims
Foreign students may have been unfairly deported from the UK after being falsely accused of cheating in English language tests,
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Robert Smith: Tycoon who just paid off 400 black students’ debt
Four hundred college seniors in the US state of Georgia just received a dream graduation present from billionaire investor Robert
Read moreBlack students reluctant to apply to Cambridge University ‘due to lack of Afro-Caribbean hairdressers’
Black students are failing to apply to Cambridge because there is a lack of Afro-Caribbean hairdressers in the city, the
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Bristol project accuses arts of ‘institutional racism’
A project encouraging young people into the arts is putting on an exhibition to explore what is says is “institutional
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Universities told to tackle race attainment gap
Universities must “accelerate efforts” to close a gap in degree attainment between white and black, Asian and minority ethnic students,
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Pastor sorry after inviting students to spit, slap and cut him in ‘crucifixion lesson’
An Ohio church has apologised after a video emerged of students in a youth programme spitting on, slapping and cutting
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Freedom of speech and extremism on campus: polling shows students least worried
Students are the least worried about issues of extremism and freedom of speech at universities according to new YouGov polling.
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Fund to boost female and black physicist numbers
The scheme is funded by one of the world’s leading astronomers, Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The discoverer of pulsars
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