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Yes!

Black scholarship in the UK risks being wiped out due to redundancies and course closures, leading academics have warned.

They’re going to fire Kehinde Andrews, yes? Really, say yes, please……

21 thoughts on “Yes!”

  1. Maybe they should look for corporate sponsorships, for example from the makers of Um Bongo fruit juice?

    Beckford said: “The reality is I’ve never been in a job since 1993 which has been secure. I’ve always had the threat of redundancy because there was always a lack of funding for posts that were connected to race. I’ve never had that kind of luxury of knowing that I was in a place that was going to invest in me and give me lots of time to develop my craft.”

    Haha, good.

  2. Great Scott! There’s a university of Chichester and a University of Winchester! They probably exist in order to make Birmingham City University feel important.

    There’s also apparently a qualification called an MRes which is (thank you, DuckDuckGo) a Master of Research for those who would rather carry out their own research than follow a taught course.

    This must be an attractive option for those who don’t like reading books and would prefer to develop their own specialist grievances without importunate external input.

  3. I like the distinction between black scholarship and actual scholarship that gets done by chaps who happen to be black.

  4. Off topic but Spud has an hilarious ‘paddy, foot-stamping’ post about how Dan Neidle doesn’t give Spud enough credit for Spud having invented everything to do with ‘tax justice’.

    Spud seemingly unaware of the irony of his claim that there would be no discussion at all about wealth taxes if it wasn’t for him.

  5. Anybody black doing an actual academic subject is an uncle tom house n****r.

    Strictly verboten as it would be acting white.. Can’t have that!

    SO important, no expense must be spared!

  6. Spud seemingly unaware of the irony of his claim that there would be no discussion at all about wealth taxes if it wasn’t for him.

    We should refer him to the academic paper by Hood R., John L., et al: Medieval Wealth Taxation in Nottinghamshire.

  7. Universities asked to balance their books cut back on courses where there aren’t enough students to pay the lecturers’ salaries: so the lecturers complain of racism instead of making the course worth a large (instead of tiny) fraction of what the students are asked to pay.

  8. They’re going to fire Kehinde Andrews, yes?

    Out of a cannon, please, with no helmet or safety net, onto concrete. I’d pay good money to watch that.

  9. The downside here is it might deprive us of all that wonderful black scholarship into nuclear fusion energy, the cure for cancer, and interplanetary space flight.

  10. there was always a lack of funding for posts that were connected to race

    And so the conclusion is….? Beuller? Beuller?

  11. Looks like the luxury beliefs are starting to seem like luxuries now that the institutions are being squeezed on basics

  12. TG – did you see that 230 foot high booster return to the launch pad and get caught by the mechanical arms?

    Elon Musk is making Thunderbirds real.

  13. Steve: Yup. Even the Spacex guys seemed to be amazed that it worked. Actually with them nailing all but one of the Falcon booster landings in the last 3 years or so, I thought they had a good chance at it. I wonder what the Boeing execs thought…

  14. Bloke in North Dorset

    I wonder what the Boeing execs thought…

    How can we get the government to pay us to do this?

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