The country's biggest teaching union has urged its members to educate children on white privilege and to decolonise their classrooms, a report has revealed.
The National Education Unions has told its 450,000 members that 'from curriculum to routines to classroom layout, our education system has been shaped by colonisation and neo-liberalism'.
The union said the need to decolonise the education system has become 'urgent' since the Covid-19 pandemic and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
In the report, the NEU suggests that education offered in schools lacks 'honesty and transparency' because of the 'silence around British imperialism and racism in the British education system, as well as a lack of histories from around the world'.