Margaret Thatcher’s old Oxford college Somerville makes all students take an ‘unconscious bias’ test
by Josh White, Mailonline:
Every student at Margaret Thatcher’s old Oxford college was ordered to take a course in ‘unconscious bias’ to expose innate ‘racism, homophobia, transphobia and disability discrimination’.
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, principal of Somerville College, instructed students to complete the online class by this Friday, and told them they must ‘achieve a mark of 100 per cent’ in a final test.
In her message the Labour peer, 65, who served in Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet, also claimed there was ‘irrefutable evidence’ that injustices in society were being fanned by ‘individual unconscious biases that many or all of us have’.
Her claims were in conflict with the Government’s belief that trendy ‘unconscious bias’ training, which is aimed at rooting out unintentional discrimination, ‘does not achieve its intended aims’ and should be phased out of use in the public sector. Other research suggests it could even make such problems worse.
[…] Lady Royall’s letter and the accompanying test prompted the Free Speech Union (FSU) campaign group to warn that her orders could be a breach of both the Human Rights Act and the Equality Act.
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