Race and ethnicity in higher education

By kiera.obrien, 17 November, 2025
A small online meeting of ethnic minority medical students in 2020 has now grown into a well established staff and student community. Here are six features that underpin its success
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5minutes
By kiera.obrien, 2 October, 2025
With the race awarding gap widening, facilitating conversations about race between staff and students is crucial. Embedding anti-racist pedagogy in your classroom can pave the way – here’s how
By kiera.obrien, 15 September, 2025
Instead of building broad-spectrum equity programmes and hoping for the best, what about a more tailored approach? Sobia Razzaq explains how a careers programme tailored to final-year students from South Asian backgrounds helped them find confidence and community
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5minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 1 September, 2025
Embedding Indigenous perspectives into curriculum requires more than symbolic gestures. Here’s how universities can move from compliance to transformation – and the practical steps we’ve learned from our journey
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4minutes
By miranda.prynne, 7 August, 2025
We need to rethink how we understand and advance anti-racism work in universities, treating racism as ‘our common enemy’ and adopting a unified approach to tackling it, writes Paul Miller
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4minutes