Tens of millions of pounds earmarked for universities in Britain have reportedly been spent on far-left projects including examining the allegedly racist history of a collection of dried plants and increasing LGBTQ+ “representation” in Medieval History, a report has claimed.
The so-called ‘Festival of Brexit’ intended to promote the United Kingdom post-European Union, funded by taxpayers to the tune of £120 million, is infested with woke events featuring drag queens and harping on the imperial roots of gardening – and failing to attract visitors.
Celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course in order to ‘decolonise of the curriculum’.
Schoolchildren need to be afforded the ability to make up their own minds on political matters, Education Secretary Nadhim Zawahi said.
The University of Oxford is reportedly considering using “woke scores” when judging the qualifications of prospective academics.
Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.
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.
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.
Students at Oxford University have voted to remove a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II because the print represented the UK’s “colonial history”.
Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London has received backlash for boasting of its efforts at “decolonising the plays of Shakespeare” via a programme of “Anti-racist Shakespeare webinars”.
Local government in Leeds, England, is teaming up with publicly-funded Leeds University to expand a BLM-style statues review with a report titled ‘Decolonising Sculpture for Urban Social Justice’.
The Telegraph reports that University of Oxford academics have complained that “Teaching notation which has not ‘shaken off its connection to its colonial past’ would be a ‘slap in the face’ for some students”, as it has “complicity in white supremacy”.
Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead, the British government has declared it is opposed to Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter movement, and warned teachers it is unlawful to teach concepts like “white privilege” as fact.
