Decolonize the Curriculum

Tens of millions of pounds earmarked for universities in Britain have reportedly been spent on far-left projects including examining the allegedly racist history of a collection of dried plants and increasing LGBTQ+ “representation” in Medieval History, a report has claimed.

Celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course in order to ‘decolonise of the curriculum’.

Schoolchildren need to be afforded the ability to make up their own minds on political matters, Education Secretary Nadhim Zawahi said.

The University of Oxford is reportedly considering using “woke scores” when judging the qualifications of prospective academics.

The National Theatre of Scotland announced that it will not be using the word “spooky” as it has been used previously as a racial slur.

A British university has told students to refrain from using terms such as “founding fathers”, “manmade”, “masterful”, and other words deemed to be sexist or racist.

English “operated as a language of the coloniser,” the University of East Anglia told students in the latest decolonise the curriculum push.

A leading teacher’s union called for “activist training” on “whiteness” to make “white privilege and colonialism” visible in schools.

Students at Oxford University have voted to remove a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II because the print represented the UK’s “colonial history”.

Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London has received backlash for boasting of its efforts at “decolonising the plays of Shakespeare” via a programme of “Anti-racist Shakespeare webinars”.

British naturalist Charles Darwin has become the latest historical scientist to run afoul of the “decolonise the curriculum” movement, with Sheffield University reportedly claiming that Darwin’s theory on evolution was used to “justify white male supremacy”.

Local government in Leeds, England, is teaming up with publicly-funded Leeds University to expand a BLM-style statues review with a report titled ‘Decolonising Sculpture for Urban Social Justice’.

The grandfather of modern physics, Sir Isaac Newton, has become the latest target of the woke mob in the push to “decolonise the curriculum”, as Sheffield University is reportedly set to contextualise lessons on Newton with claims about him benefiting from “colonial-era activity”.

The Telegraph reports that University of Oxford academics have complained that “Teaching notation which has not ‘shaken off its connection to its colonial past’ would be a ‘slap in the face’ for some students”, as it has “complicity in white supremacy”.