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Students In UK Ordered To Undertake White Privilege Training

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by Tyler Durden
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Britain's universities have started the new term the only way the education establishment knows how: by sitting 18-year-olds down and asking them to confess their "White privilege" before they are even allowed to unpack in halls.

The same system that cannot keep White British children in grammar schools, and that now puts seven-year-old girls into taxpayer-funded mandatory hijabs, has decided the urgent problem on campus is that freshers have not yet internalised enough racial guilt.

New students at the University of Northampton have been told to complete an "Introduction to Race Equity" course as part of Freshers' Week induction.

The module is supplied by Advance HE, the sector body that sells this material across higher education. In the section titled "Whiteness, Privilege and Belonging," students are asked whether they were "aware of how White privilege operates and the impact it has on staff and students from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds." They are then told to list actions they will take to improve their "anti-racist practice" and "tackle race inequality."

Advance HE's own glossary is not subtle. It defines white privilege as an "unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white."

It describes "structural white privilege" as "a system of white domination that creates and maintains belief systems that make current racial advantages and disadvantages seem normal."

The university claims the course is optional, that answers are not read by staff, and that anyone who skips it can still move into accommodation. It also admits that students who do not finish the modules will be sent "constant reminders."

A Free Speech Union spokesman put the real pressure in plain English: "Even though this course isn't mandatory and the answers aren't accessible to the university, it still sends a message that Northampton has taken a position on a number of politically contested issues and woe betide the student who disagrees with that position."

Northampton is unapologetic. "Inclusivity is one of our core values, and we make no apologies for that," a spokesman said. The same statement added that the university "share[s] a commitment to freedom of speech and respectful dialogue," and that the training is an "industry standard course." Industry standard is the giveaway. This is not one eccentric campus. It is the product the sector now treats as normal.

This stuff isn't restricted the the UK. In New York, the Bank Street School for Children has for years split pupils as young as six into race "affinity groups": a Kids of Color room and a White Anti-Racist group.

The New York Post reported that White children were drilled to raise their "awareness of the prevalence of Whiteness and privilege" and to challenge "notions of colorblindness," while children of colour were praised in a separate room.

Parents said the younger White pupils watched classmates return eating cupcakes handed out in the other group. An anonymous parent told the paper: "Ever since Ferguson, the school has been increasing anti-white propaganda in its curriculum."

Bank Street's own pages still list those race-sorted groups from first grade. The same sorting - White children as a problem to be fixed, everyone else as a constituency to be flattered - is now what Advance HE packages as "industry standard" for British freshers.

By the time a White British 18-year-old is asked to write about unearned racial advantage, the lesson has already been running for a decade.

Schools in Sheffield, led by Notre Dame High School, have taught pupils that Black people "cannot be racist" toward White peers. The materials state: "Black people can be racially prejudiced towards a white person which is wrong and totally unacceptable. However, this is not racism. Racism is racial prejudice plus power. In the UK, white people hold the cultural power."

Lessons for children as young as seven talk about "privilege," tell White pupils they are "likely to be privileged by the colour of their skin," and instruct them to monitor their language, challenge friends and report incidents.

Shadow education secretary Laura Trott called it "deeply alarming that children as young as seven are being exposed to divisive identity politics in schools under the banner of 'anti-racism education.'"

She added: "Labelling children by race and teaching them to focus on what divides them will only foster resentment and deepen division." Shadow minister Neil O'Brien called the same material "political indoctrination."

That is the official story of race in English classrooms: power runs one way, guilt runs the other, and the children of the historic majority are the ones who must sit still for it.

The results are not abstract. White British pupils are now a minority in England's grammar schools. Department for Education figures put their share at 44 percent in 2026, down from 66 percent in 2016.

At Dartford Grammar School for Girls in Kent the White British share collapsed from 52 percent to 7 percent in a decade. African pupils are now the largest group there.

At Reading School, White British applications fell from 49 percent to 7 percent before a partial rebound. Pate's Grammar in Cheltenham went from three-quarters White British to 34 percent.

Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe called the Dartford figures "truly staggering" and said: "We must have the courage to say this is unacceptable."

An independent inquiry chaired by Baroness Morris and Sir Hamid Patel concluded that "the education system is not set up to serve white working-class children and families."

In 2025, just 36 percent of White British pupils on free school meals got a grade 4 or above in English and maths GCSEs - half the rate of pupils not on free meals. There are 1.25 million White British children on those meals.

Sir Hamid Patel said: "Our inquiry found that too many white working-class children face barriers at every stage of their education. These figures suggest that those barriers may also be limiting access to some of the country's highest-performing schools. We should be far more ambitious for these young people."

Professor Peter Edwards warned of "huge ramifications for our young people, and our society as a whole," if disadvantaged White pupils "apparently see very little future in advancement through education."

The money tells you who the system prefers to fuss over. Schools now draw a record £572 million to support pupils who do not speak English as a first language - 1.8 million children, one in five.

Chris McGovern of the Campaign for Real Education said: "Stop pitying them, we obsess about it far too much and we don't need to fret about them - we need to worry about the white working-class kids."

While White working-class boys fall off the academic ladder, Labour-run Barnet Council has put an Islamic primary onto the public payroll with the dress code still attached.

Barnet Hill Academy in West Hendon became a voluntary-aided school on 1 September. Fees of more than £6,500 a year disappeared. The taxpayer now pays.

The governing body keeps the religious character, can select pupils and staff by faith, and until the row exploded listed a plain white hijab as compulsory from Year 3 - age seven.

The school's own site has described its uniform and Islamic dress code as "closely aligned with our school ethos, which aims at directing our children towards Islamic values and norms."

National Secular Society chief executive Stephen Evans wrote: "It is appalling that taxpayers are being asked to fund a school that forces girls as young as seven to wear the hijab. Women should be free to choose religious dress; young girls should not have it imposed upon them."

He added that state-funded schools "should bring children together, not divide them by faith and, by extension, ethnicity."

The school later added a line saying the hijab is "not a requirement for any non-Muslim students." That dodge does not help a girl the school classifies as Muslim. There is no equivalent religious clothing rule for boys.

Trott has now called the arrangement "outrageous," saying "a state-funded school is forcing girls, some as young as seven years old, to wear hijabs." She and shadow equalities minister Joy Morrissey have referred the policy to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, arguing it discriminates on religion and sex and may breach human rights law.

Education Secretary Lucy Powell has claimed the school "clarified" that the hijab was "not compulsory." Barnet Council still calls the policy "in line with other faith schools" and "legally compliant."

So the sequence is now complete. At seven, a girl in a state-funded London primary can be told the hijab is part of uniform because the school has decided she is Muslim. In the same years, other classrooms teach that racism only travels one way. By 18, the university emails a "race equity" module and asks the student to write about White privilege before the boxes are unpacked.

Grammar school places that once belonged to the national majority have been redistributed. The White working class is told, by official inquiry, that the system was never built for them.

This is not inclusion. It is a hierarchy with British children at the bottom and ideology at the top - paid for by the same public that is no longer allowed to say so.

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