No Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen Cancelled in University ‘Decolonise the Curriculum’ Drive
Celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course in order to ‘decolonise of the curriculum’.

Celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course in order to ‘decolonise of the curriculum’.
To parents’ dismay, the once prestigious American School in London is resisting calls from Ofsted regulators to change its curriculum and is sticking to teaching its “diversity, equity and inclusion” programme.
British teachers were told English exams “uphold whiteness” at a National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) diversity seminar, as the Tory government continues to lose the “culture wars” against far ideology.
Schoolchildren need to be afforded the ability to make up their own minds on political matters, Education Secretary Nadhim Zawahi said.
The Department of Education will investigate Brighton council after reports surfaced that educators are teaching “concerning” race theories.
Bristol University accused a PhD student of being ‘transphobic’ for saying only biological women can give birth.
From the 4th of January, English school children will be once again required to wear masks in schools by the government.
(AP) — Schoolchildren returned to classes Monday in parts of Europe, while the British government pledged to rush ventilation units and enough COVID-19 test kits to schools to ensure they, too, can reopen later this week despite soaring infection rates in the UK.
25 British all-girls schools won’t be accepting applications from “legally male” transgender pupils.
Blair has called for preparations for a fourth vaccination rollout and rejected the legitimacy of debate around corona passports.
The University of Oxford is reportedly considering using “woke scores” when judging the qualifications of prospective academics.
Schools in Labour-run Wales are to trial longer days in an attempt to combat the effects Covid restrictions have had on children.
England has seen a major rise in the number of children being educated at home, with concerns regarding health and philosophy cited.
A parenting campaign group has criticised the “deeply inappropriate” request from a school for pupils to wear a “yellow badge” to show they are exempt from wearing a mask, with many making a comparison to the yellow stars forced upon Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe.
An elite British university has banned the phrase ‘trigger warning’ because the term may in itself be too “provocative” and trigger students.
Nigel Farage said that teaching ‘white privilege’ is designed to make white people hate their country, history, and themselves.
Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.
White privilege and other tenets of leftist ideology should not be taught in school as “fact”, Britain’s recently installed Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, has pronounced.
An elite school in London that charges £19,000 per year, has been teaching white privilege lessons on the alleged racism faced by Meghan Markle.
The Students’ Union at Cambridge University has accused feminists of colluding with the “far-right” on matters concerning transgenderism.
A higher education trade union in Britain has drawn criticism for supporting its members to self-identify as another race.
The British government has embarked on a pressure campaign to make parents get their children vaccinated or potentially risk losing the ability for their kids to attend school in person.
A school in Leicestershire, England, has banned the terms “good” and “bad” to describe pupil behaviour because the headteacher wanted to remove “emotional words” from classroom management.
A British university has told students to refrain from using terms such as “founding fathers”, “manmade”, “masterful”, and other words deemed to be sexist or racist.
Teachers who promote leftist ideas such as “white privilege” should be reported to the anti-extremist programme, a Tory MP reportedly argued.
White males are the only demographic in Britain which saw a decrease in securing spots in universities, according to newly released figures.
Scotland’s left-separatist government has published its astonishing new agenda for “Embedding race equality in schools”, pushing documents which teach woke ideology on “white privilege”, “white fragility”, “decolonising the curriculum”, “structural racism”, and the alleged non-existence of “reverse racism” as fact.
English “operated as a language of the coloniser,” the University of East Anglia told students in the latest decolonise the curriculum push.
A leading teacher’s union called for “activist training” on “whiteness” to make “white privilege and colonialism” visible in schools.
Stonewall has told teachers in Britain to ditch the terms boys and girls and refer to pupils with the gender-neutral “learners”.
Huawei and other Chinese state-owned firms have reportedly provided twenty British universities with at least £40 million in funding.
Students at Oxford University have voted to remove a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II because the print represented the UK’s “colonial history”.
British naturalist Charles Darwin has become the latest historical scientist to run afoul of the “decolonise the curriculum” movement, with Sheffield University reportedly claiming that Darwin’s theory on evolution was used to “justify white male supremacy”.
A Christian chaplain at Trent College was fired and reported to the British government’s anti-terrorism programme for delivering a sermon in which he told students that it is acceptable to question and disagree with far-left LGBT ideology being taught at the school.
Charities and institutions in Britain which promote the leftist idea of ‘white privilege’ should be blocked from receiving taxpayer support, a leading Tory MP has said.
The ruling left-separatist party in Scotland has vowed to introduce “anti-racist education” in order to confront the “UK’s colonial history”.
Lessons on so-called “white privilege” are needed to combat “racial prejudice” within children, according to new guidance drawn up by a group of education charities and unions.
The union representing a teacher suspended from Batley Grammar School for showing images of the Islamic prophet during a lesson on blasphemy donated thousands of pounds to a charity that doxed him and accused him of “terrorism”.
The father of a teacher suspended from Batley Grammar School for showing images of Islam’s prophet Mohammed during a lesson on blasphemy says the school “threw him under a bus”.
A London school where the British flag was pulled down and burned by pupils who say they felt “colonised” is giving in after teachers backed protesting youths.