“The UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, which reviews university courses, recently asked universities to decolonise their mathematics courses. Several UK universities are already busy decolonising chemistry courses …” (more)
[William Reville, Irish Times, 5 January]
[The Blogmeister writes: Looks like a storm in a teacup to me. The UK QAA doc mentioned is here and is approx 14,000 words; it mentions decolonisation twice, making rather modest suggestions for promoting equality and diversity in maths teaching. It is very hard to understand how anyone who has actually read it can say that it ‘genuflect[s] to sociopolitical ideologies’ or is ‘highly critical of science-based thinking’.]