A ‘fanatical’ slavery conference began at today amid fears it will attack ‘s legacy. Academics gathered for the first day of the three-day event discussing how and why Britain could pay reparations. The event, entitled ‘envisioning reparations: historical and comparative approaches’, says it wants to examine the ‘increasingly prominent calls for slavery reparations’. Organisers said…
Read MoreMore than 10,000 budding nurses and midwives will have their university degrees paid off in full to ease workforce pressures on Victoria’s stretched health system. The nurses and midwives will be recruited and trained for free from next year as part of a $270million initiative announced by the Victorian government on Sunday. Under the five-year…
Read MoreThe Prince of Wales will launch a scholarship programme with The Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation to commemorate the life of the aspiring architect who was killed in a racist attack. Stephen’s mother, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, will reveal the details of the one-year diploma programme in a special 40th anniversary edition of , the black national newspaper,…
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