Under the programme, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) officers at Oxford will spearhead an £841,000 campaign to prevent racial harassment and bullying
Oxford University is to spend more than £3.3 million on 'decolonising' the curriculum and preventing so-called microaggressions.
No definition of microaggressions is provided in the strategy, but race experts have used examples such as asking someone where they are originally from. Academic chiefs are aiming to close the attainment gaps between black and white students with the strategy But Professor Jeremy Black, who teaches history at the University of Exeter, said: 'Indoctrination through curriculum manipulation is highly undesirable and a distortion of intellectual values. It is damaging for social cohesion and an abuse of public funds.'
The latest plan follows a charter, published by the university two years ago, which pledged to increase the number of ethnic minority staff in senior roles, widen access and eliminate attainment gaps.
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