Statistics on Black professors make for grim reading, and legislation on free speech is proposed
It’s really coming to something when official statistics that put the proportion of professors in UK universities who are Black at 1 per cent turn out to be something of an overstatement.
Yesterday saw the publication of the latest Higher Education Statistics Agency data on the make-up of the UK’s higher education workforce, showing the situation as it was on 1 December 2019 (pre-Covid). One of the headline statistics pulled out for the press release was that “155 professors (1 per cent) were Black”.
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