UK: Universities are being told to “go woke” as the degrees watchdog calls for courses to teach about colonialism and white supremacy, even in computing.
The watchdog which checks course standards, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), wants universities to teach such topics in a wide range of courses including science, maths and geography.
In geography, the QAA believes that courses should acknowledge “racism, classism, ableism, homophobia and patriarchy”.
While in computing courses, the watchdog has called on universities to address how “hierarchies of colonial value are reinforced” in the subject.
Economics students should be taught that it is “still predominantly a white, male and Western field”, according to the QAA.