Keeping race on the UK University Agenda post-Covid 19

https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/inertia-contagion-towards-immunity-keeping-race-uk-university-agenda-post-covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has mutated a new strain of inequality in UK universities, further contaminating its waters. This will promote a double disadvantage, disproportionately affecting previously marginalised and disadvantaged groups. Students and staff from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds will be affected in myriad ways because they are “shewing that they had drank of it”.

As Covid-19 continues to change the way we all work, Dave Thomas and Marcia Wilson explain why universities have to ensure Race Equality progress is not lost amid the furore once some form of normality returns

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