It is hard to think of an arena of UK public life where the people are so poorly represented and served on the basis of their race.
By William Ackah
New Statesman - 28 March, 2014
It is a shocking statistic that there were just 85 black professors
in UK universities in 2011-12. In stark terms, this means that there
are more higher education institutions than there are black British,
African and Caribbean professors actually teaching in them. The latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency put the number of UK academic staff from a known ethnic minority at 12.8%.
In contrast, black and minority ethnic students are well represented. In some institutions, such as City University,
they make up nearly 50% of the student population. Yet even in these
universities black academics are a rarity, particularly those in senior
positions.
It is hard to think of an arena of UK public life where the people are
so poorly represented and served on the basis of their race. Yet this
scandalous state of affairs generates little by way of investigation,
censure or legal scrutiny under the 2010 Equality Act.
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