Race on the Agenda stands in lockstep solidarity with the Black community and millions of others across the world who are organising and demonstrating for racial justice, following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month. We are campaigning for transformative changes to the systemically racist policing, which infects both the US and the…
Senior Policy Officer, Poornima Karunacadacharan discusses her concerns about predicted GCSE and A-Level grades on BBC World News, on 22nd June 2020.
We at ROTA are proud to support Art & Co. – the world’s largest online auction to raise funds to help those affected by the coronavirus contagion, run out of London. The auction closes on June 27, 7pm. 42 artists have joined seven charities to fight the seen and unseen effects of the coronavirus: domestic…
CORE have written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock to address the recent review by Public Health England into the racial disproportionality of COVID-19 deaths. They argue that the government-commissioned report tells us what we already know – that BAME individuals and their communities are more likely to die from COVID-19. However, what CORE finds disappointing, is that the report contains no…
A huge thank you to Rachel Ayo Ogunleye is organizing this amazing fundraiser on behalf of Race on the Agenda. More information on the campaign and to make a donation, please see HERE.
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday 1 June 2020 Race Equality organisations write to Education Secretary demanding that the Dfe step in to ensure objectivity in grading, after exam cancellations For the last month a number of race equality organisations and academic experts have been in contact with the Education Secretary expressing concerns about grading…
After seven years as head of ROTA Andy Gregg has announced that he will be retiring at the end of August. Ali Ahmed, ROTA’s Chair during this period said “Regrettably I am sorry to announce Andy’s departure from ROTA. Andy continued to build our work on put race equality at the centre of the policy…
During this difficult time for many organisations, we have drawn up a list of funding opportunities. See HERE.
13 CORE members, and 4 non-CORE organisations wrote a statement that was sent to Public Health England, regarding Trevor Phillips’ prominent involvement, in the review examining the disproportionate number of BAME deaths resulting from COVID-19. Read the statement HERE. Read the reply received from Public Health England HERE.
The Government is consulting on the 'Exceptional arrangements for exam grading and assessment in 2020. ROTA is very concerned that the guidance does not adequately address the disproportionate impact the new arrangements may have on certain groups of BAME pupils, those who are socio-economically disadvantaged, and those who share other protected characteristics. The Coalition…