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‘The university professor is always white’
Rachel Williams’ disturbing feature (‘The university professor is always white’) comes at a time when this government is hell bent on removing the public sector equality duty from the compliance requirements of the Equality Act 2010. Already, the Coalition Government has effectively neutered the Equality and Human Rights Commission and rendered it a hollow shell
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David Cameron tries being ‘cruel to be kind’
It was truly stomach churning to hear David Cameron on Monday 22 October 2012 unctuously setting out his government’s revised law and order agenda for dealing with the presence of knives and guns on our streets, punishing and rehabilitating offenders and giving private contractors outcomes related incentives for reducing offending. This was the same David
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CEN releases its annual report
Communities Empowerment Network (CEN) has spent another year supporting vulnerable children and their often bewildered parents in the face of institutional practices in schooling that are often demeaning, unfair, discriminatory and damaging to the life chances and well-being of children and to the confidence of parents and families in the schooling system. This year’s Annual
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Kuku launches book, ‘Remaking the Niger-Delta’
The following article was published by Checkout Magazine on September 22nd 2012 The special adviser to the President of Nigeria on Niger Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Hon Kingsley Kuku yesterday made official launch of his long-awaited book, ‘Remaking the Nigeria Delta: Challenges and Opportunities’. Speaking at Jasmine Hall, Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos,
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Boris J. youth violence strategy: ‘sabotaged’ and ‘a shambles’
Boris Johnson’s undertaking to get to grips with knife and youth crime was one of the most welcome of his pledges during the last mayoral campaign. Since moving in to City Hall he’s put time and energy into delivering. But what has really been achieved? Three members of an advisory group Boris set up to
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