The Exchange resources
Education in the Time of Corona
Below are links to resources discussed during The Exchange: Episode 2, Education in the Time of Corona. The resource list is free to download, print and share. Please be mindful that some of the information discussed may be sensitive.
Guidance - education
De Montfort University (DMU), ‘Information for Students’, DMU, 2020
Education and childcare during coronavirus, Department of Education, 2020
Guidance for providers about quality and standards during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Office for Students, April 2020
Guidance for Schools, Department of Education, March 2020
Guidance for Schools, Department of Education, June 2020
Resources directly referenced or in relation to topics discussed
Macpherson Report, London: Home Office, 1999
The Cost of Learning in Lockdown, London: Child Poverty Action Group, 2020
‘The Underachievement of ‘Black Caribbean’ and ‘White British Working-Class’ pupils of secondary school age in Leicester’, Leicester: Leicester City Council, 2019
Universities and Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS), ‘Predicted grades – what you need to know’, UCAS, 2020
Adegoke, Y, and Uviebinené, E., Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, London, United Kingdom: Fourth Estate, 2019
Coard, B., How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System, London, United Kingdom: New Beacon Books, 1971
Eggleston, J., Education for Some: The Educational and Vocational Experiences of 15-18 Year-old Members of Minority Ethnic Groups, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom: Institute of Education Press, 1986
Anon, ‘Five charts that tell the story of diversity in UK universities’, BBC News, 24 May 2018
Coughlan, S., ‘Uni admissions could scrap use of predicted grades’, BBC News, 27 February 2020
Cullinane, C. and Montacute, R., ‘COVID-19 and Social Mobility Impact Brief #1: School Shutdown’, Sutton Trust, April 2020
Hazel, W., ‘GCSEs: Predicted grades could be affected by ‘unreliable’ assessment in ‘weak’ schools, says ex-Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw’, iNews, 10 June 2020
Hazel, W., ‘GCSE and A-level exams 2020: Millions of proposed grades set to be cut down after ‘generous’ predictions by teachers’, iNews, 18 June 2020
Hussain, Q., ‘As a GCSE student, I’m worried cancelling exams leaves the field wide open to discriminate’, iNews, 16 June 2020
Lightfoot, L., ‘New UK teachers’ union chief: ‘Institutional racism in schools has to be addressed’, The Guardian, 9 June 2020
Runnymede, ‘Follow-up letter: Predicted grades & BME students’, Runnymede, 29 April 2020
Turner, C., ‘Number of black students at Cambridge University rises by 50 per cent as ‘Stormzy effect’ is cited’, The Telegraph, 11 October 2019
Relevant resources collated by the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre
Equality issues during Covid-19, England: University and College Union, 2020
Schools and COVID-19: guidance for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff and their employers in school settings, England: BameEd, 2020
Anon, ‘Should I return to work at school?’, New Statesman, 17 May 2020
Apkan, P., ‘Black students will suffer most from A-Level cancellations – they routinely outperform their predicted grades’, The Independent, 23 March 2020
Atrey, S., ‘Universities beware: shifting classes online so quickly is a double-edged sword’, The Guardian, 20 May 2020
Batty, D., ‘Plans to reopen English schools ‘fails to address risk to BAME staff’’, The Guardian, 26 May 2020
Campion, K., ‘Universities must not forget about BAME students during this crisis’, Wonkhe, 14 May 2020
Dickens, J., ‘DfE chief scientific adviser admits he hasn’t assessed school reopening guidance’, Schools Week, 13 May 2020
Hall, R. and Batty, D., ‘’I can’t get motivated’: the students struggling with online learning’, The Guardian, 4 May 2020
Johnson, B., ‘Bias concern for BAME students as exams cancelled’, Sky News, 27 April 2020Khan, O., ‘Covid-19 must not derail efforts to eliminate equality gaps’, Wonkhe, 22 June 2020
Lough, C., ‘Relax GCSE grade boundaries this year, says teachers’, Tes, 10 June 2020
Morgan, W., ‘BAME academics are already under-represented. The response to Covid-19 could reduce our numbers further’, Wonkhe, 6 May 2020
Ray, J., ‘Predicted grades could unfairly ‘predict futures’ of students, report warns’, ITV News, 17 June 2020
Singh, G., ‘Covid-19 does discriminate – so we should tackle its impact on BAME students’, Wonkhe, 3 May 2020
Weale, S., ‘Students ‘should get a year’s refund due to Covid-19 crisis’’, The Guardian, 24 April 2020
White, N., ‘Black and Minority students could lose out if grades are based on predicted results’, Huffington Post, 24 March 2020
Please note that these are a selection of resources relevant to Episode 2 of The Exchange.
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COVID-19 and Racial Inequality in the UK
Below is a list of resources discussed during the inaugural episode of The Exchange, COVID-19 and Racial Inequality in the UK. The resource list is free to download, print and share. Please be mindful that sensitive topics are discussed.
Resources directly referenced or in relation to topics discussed:
The Marmot Review, London: The UCL Institute of Health Equity, 2010
Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19, London: Public Health England, 2020
Please note is has become apparent that there is a second report as yet unreleased by Public Health England which allegedly has recommendations originally omitted from the first report. It is unclear when this is due to be released, if released at all.
Race Disparity Audit, London: Cabinet Office, 2017
Arday, J. and Mirza, H. S. (Ed.), Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonizing the Academy, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Benjamin, R., Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Cambridge, United Kingdom: 2019
Bryan, B., Dadzie, S., and Scafe. S., The Heart of Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain, London, United Kingdom: Virago, 1985
Gray, M. A., ‘Inequalities in Health. The Black Report: A Summary and Comment’, International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 12 (1982)
Lorde, A., Sister Outsider. Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde, New York, United States of America: Crossing Press, 1984
Mirza, H. S., Young, Female and Black, London, UK: Routledge, 1992
Global Development Institute (GDI), ‘All in this together? How a decade of austerity cleared the way for Covid-19 and deprived areas’, GDI, University of Manchester, 6 May 2020
Hirsch, A., ‘Britain doesn’t care about health inequalities. For minorities, that ignorance is deadly’, The Guardian, 23 April 2020
Khan, O., ‘Coronavirus exposes how riddled Britain is with racial inequality’, The Guardian, 20 April 2020
Marsh, S. and McIntyre, N,, ‘Six in 10 health workers killed by Covid-19 are BAME’, The Guardian, 25 May 2020
Mohdin, A., ‘BAME women make up 55% of UK pregnancy hospitalisations with Covid-19’, The Guardian, 16 May 2020
PA Media, ‘Boy, 13, dies in London after testing positive for coronavirus’, The Guardian, 31 March 2020
Further work by panellists
Professor Heidi Mirza
Professor Ivan Browne
Relevant resources collated by the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre
The Colour of Money. How racial inequalities obstruct a fair and resilient economy, London: The Runnymede Trust, 2020
The Marmot Review: 10 Years On, London: The UCL Institute of Health Equity: 2020
State of the Nation. Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK, Bristol: The Runnymede Trust, 2020
Abbey, N., ‘Black coronavirus deaths have exposed Britain for what it really is’, The Independent, 8 May 2020
Asaria, M., ‘Are there more COVID-19 deaths than expected in BAME communities in England – What does the data say?’, Discover Society, 29 April 2020
Barr, C., Kommenda, N., McIntyre, N. and Voce, A., ‘Ethnic minorities dying of Covid-19 at higher rate, analysis shows’, The Guardian, 22 April 2020
Booth, R., ‘BAME groups hit harder by Covid-19 than white people, UK study suggests’, The Guardian, 7 April 2020
Croxford, R., ‘Coronavirus cases to be tracked by ethnicity’, BBC News, 18 April 2020
Hirsch, A., ‘If coronavirus doesn’t discriminate, how come black people are bearing the brunt?’, The Guardian, 8 April 2020
Morris, N., ‘BAME households have ’10 times less wealth’ that white Brits – and Covid-19 is making it worse’, Metro, 27 April 2020
Patel. A., ‘Serious concerns raised by Leicester academics around high numbers of Covid-19 deaths in ethnic minorities’, Leicestershire Live, 21 April 2020
Roberts, J., ‘High number of BAME coronavirus deaths ‘magnifies UK’s institutional racism’’, Metro, 23 April 2020
Siddique, H., ‘Equality watchdog urged to investigate Covid-19 impact on BAME people’, The Guardian, 10 May 2020