This should have been with the weblink I just sent
This article is from six years ago, but it does state:
Professor Heidi Mirza, who is of Caribbean origin, said that the government should be concerned by both the low number of black applicants and the lack of the success of those that apply. Nationally, while 17% of pupils in the UK are from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds, only about 7% of teachers are.
Mirza, author of Respecting Difference: Race, Faith and Culture for Teacher Educators, said: "Diversity in our teacher workforce is crucial if British children are to be well prepared to be global citizens and successfully compete on the world stage.
"We need to do some soul searching in our teacher education provision and look at the insidious ways institutional racism keeps potential black, minority ethnic and refugee teachers from getting on and through their courses. I do think there is a hidden crisis in teacher education, which has slipped under the wire of Gove's reforms in education."
As we are now in 2020 and the residue from #BLM is still on our minds.
Will teacher training institutes now be more open and welcoming to all who want to help improve the teaching of the school curriculum? As these improvements can not be done overnight.
Afrikan proverb - Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
The hunter has to now let the lion tell its story!
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