Race on the Agenda hereby gives notice to its members that our Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the financial year 2021/22 is scheduled to take place on Thursday 25th May 2023 at Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA. Before the AGM, there will be a special conference: "Thwarted ambitions" Why do some students choose to withdraw from University?.
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Why do some students from Global Majority and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities choose to withdraw from university? Although preliminary findings from ROTA's Pilot Study cannot be said to be representative of the Higher Education sector as a whole, some concerning issues have emerged. Among many reasons why students choose to leave or consider leaving…
A new report, authored by Heriot-Watt University, found that in England the highest levels of homelessness risks are experienced by people from Black and minoritised ethnic backgrounds. Black people are three and a half times as likely to experience statutory homelessness[1] as White British people. The report, conducted in partnership with Race on the Agenda…
Race on the Agenda (ROTA) surveyed students at all London Higher Education institutions and interviewed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Leads from ten London Universities to explore why a disproportionate number of UK-domiciled students from Global Majority (GM) and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities choose to withdraw from university. Detailed findings will be published in…
Oli has over twenty years’ experience in public service. Early in his career, he worked on the award winning “Working Future” project that was part funded by the European Social Fund, tasked to test an innovative change to the way housing benefit payments were made to statutory homeless residents of East Thames Housing with the…
Kadra Abdinasir is Associate Director for Children and Young People’s Mental Health at Centre for Mental Health. She leads the Centre’s research and policy in this area to help improve the lives of children and young people. She is also Strategic Lead for the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition, a network of over…
On the 53rd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Director of BlkOutUK Rob Berkeley, shares his experiences at the intersections of homophobia/patriarchy and anti-Black racism. In the early morning of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. While police raids on gay bars…
As an organisation which works with marginalised communities across the country, we call on the Government to urgently address the impact of the cost-of-living crisis, in order to prevent the exacerbation of poverty and debt for millions of low-income households in the UK.
6 new laws and how they will impact our communities
