Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR)

People sleeping rough
19 August 24
: Statistics reveal that the number of rough sleepers in London has more than tripled since 2008/09 to nearly 12,000 in 2023/24, and that the proportion of rough sleepers who are white has fallen from 71 percent in 2011 to 43 percent, with Black people making up a quarter of rough sleepers.
Source: Trust for London
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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Germany: Fear of the AfD – DW – 08/15/2024
15 August 24
In Cottbus, Germany, foreign students choose to live in protected communities over the fear of an AfD victory in the upcoming Brandenburg state parliament elections. The university is the first in Germany to implement a programme against right-wing extremism.
Source: DW
Category: EDUCATION
Country: Germany
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Children to be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online
10 August 24
: Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says that the government’s curriculum review ‘will develop plans to embed critical skills in lessons to arm our children against the disinformation, fake news and putrid conspiracy theories awash on social media’.
Source: Guardian
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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Unauthorised absence up but school attendance improves
9 August 24
: A report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) reveals that while school absence rates have fallen over the past academic year, absences increased among pupils with education, health and care plans and the ‘absence gap’ between disadvantaged pupils and their peers has risen. Asian and Black pupils have greater reduction in absences than white pupils and on average continue to miss fewer days of school.
Source: TES
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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Matthew Goodwin leaves professor role at University of Kent
8 August 24
: Matthew Goodwin leaves his post as politics professor at the University of Kent. During the recent far-right violence, he made social media posts linking the Southport attacks to ‘our broken policy of mass immigration’ and saying that Britain is not a ‘happy… country’ because there ‘are mobs of Muslims chanting Allahu Akbar rather than waving the Union Jack’.
Source: THE
Category: EDUCATION
Country: Hungary
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Antisemitism in schools more than triples in 2 years
8 August 24
: The Community Security Trust reports its highest half-year figure for antisemitism affecting people and property in schools, including 16 incidents of assault among the 162 incidents recorded.
Source: TES
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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We Condemn Bulgaria’s New Anti-LGBTIQ+ Law
7 August 24
: The Bulgarian parliament passes a law banning ‘propaganda, promotion, and incitement’ of non-traditional sexual orientations and non-biological gender identities in educational settings, leading gay rights groups to call on the European Commission to sanction the government.
Source: Forbidden Colours
Category: EDUCATION
Country: Bulgaria
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Gazan medical students granted Norway visas in U-turn
5 August 24
A group of ten medical students from the destroyed Al-Azhar University in Gaza are granted permits to complete their studies at the University of Oslo following intervention by the Norwegian government.
Source: THE
Category: EDUCATION
Country: Norway
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Just four in 10 black early career scholars would report bullying
1 August 24
A survey by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) finds that 36 percent of Black staff in academia have faced ‘overt racism or discrimination’ in their career, while 81 percent of those surveyed feel that they ‘face particular challenges as a Black academic’.
Source: THE
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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St Andrews rector stripped of roles over Gaza comments
1 August 24
The University of St Andrews removes its rector from her roles on the governing body and as a trustee, saying her letter condemning Israeli war crimes ‘risked generating antisemitic sentiment’. Stella Maris, who describes herself as a ‘young, neurodiverse black woman with limited financial resources’, will retain her role as rector.
Source: THE
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine on their eviction
29 July 24
Sheffield University forcibly closes the pro-Palestine encampment set up on its campus three months ago after obtaining an eviction order.
Source: X
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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Labour halts Tory law on freedom of speech in English universities
26 July 24
The government halts the commencement of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 introduced by the Conservatives, in order to ‘consider other options’.
Source: Guardian
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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Pupil absence high despite school attendance campaign
25 July 24
Government data on pupil absence shows that, although the overall absence rate across all schools (7.4 percent) is slightly lower than last year, it continues to exceed the level (4.7 percent) in the last full academic year before the Covid pandemic. Students on free school meals continue to have much higher absence (11.1 percent) and persistent absence (36.5 percent) rates.
Source: TES
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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ITT: Teacher trainees failing to qualify hits 6-year high
25 July 24
The government publishes data of ‘initial teacher training performance profiles’, showing there were 3,409 (12.7 percent) fewer trainee teachers than in 2017/18. Trainees of Asian, Black and Arab heritage dropped out at higher rates than white teachers (7 percent), with African (12 percent) and Chinese (15 percent) heritage trainees particularly badly affected.
Source: TES
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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DfE ‘does not have a strategy’ for reducing disadvantage gap, watchdog says
23 July 24
The National Audit Office estimates that the Department for Education (DfE) spent £9.2 billion in 2023-24 but concludes that it ‘cannot demonstrate it is achieving value for money in its efforts to close the attainment gap’. The Education Policy Institute calls for the introduction of student premium funding at sixth form to match that in the rest of the school system.
Source: TES
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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