A new piece on Unherd. The start:

“Just as DEI is being scaled back in American higher education, the UK is doubling down on it, much to the peril of academic freedom.

After a lengthy consultation period, conveniently timed to report after the election which brought Labour into office, guidance from Research England (which doles out over £2 billion in funding per year) has been released. It stipulates that its Research Excellence Framework (REF) will now grade university departments on their share of women and non-whites, promotion rates by race and sex, and how well they are training their staff in DEI ideology. All of which has nothing to do with research excellence.”

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