The University of Leeds has introduced a sweeping “decolonising” programme that requires academic departments to embed its principles across their core academic activity, in a move that places the institution on a potential collision course with the recently commenced Higher…
The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) is an independent UK body which provides “quality assurance” for university teaching. 98 per cent of UK universities are paid “members” of the QAA and receive its advice. The QAA issues “Subject Benchmark Statements”, which…
According to an article in The Telegraph on 15 June, the University of Liverpool recently issued a new set of guidelines to lecturers in the history department, advising them on how to “diversify” and “decolonise” their curricula. The guidance, sent…