UK: No black Caribbean Britons accepted on civil service fast stream, despite record number of applicants
By Paul Waugh From huffington Post UK Labour MP says grandchildren of the Windrush generation likely to be affected. Not a single person of Black Caribbean origin has won a place on a prestigious graduate scheme for Whitehall civil servants…
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Has Caribbean nationalism killed Pan Africanism?
TBC Examining the rift between Black Caribbean’s and Africans Garvey’s call for all black persons to “Look to Africa” has been answered with an insolent “for what?” Proud of their culture, Afro- Caribbean persons’ perceived superiority over all other cultures…
Exclusion rates for black Caribbean students remain disproportionately high, says leading academic
By Jon Severs From tes Black Caribbean pupils are still much more likely to be excluded than other students in mainstream English schools, according to new research, despite an overall reduction in exclusion rates since the 1990s Professor David Gillborn and…
Black pupils improving faster than any other group
By Natricia Duncan From The Voice Government data suggests persistent under-performance is on the way to becoming a thing of the past UNDER-PERFORMANCE IN education has been one of the stubborn problems facing Britain’s black community. Year after year, statistics…
‘Occupy’ campuses over shameful statistics, academics say
By Natricia Duncan From The Voice Out of more than 18,000 professors, less than one per cent comes from African or Caribbean background The only way to address the “frustrating” under-representation of African Caribbean academics is through forceful activism, according…
