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It is time to reject the profit-driven education model
We must question the viability of universities as critical spaces to challenge power for a sustainable future, writes BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK
THE MESSAGE IS ON THE PLACARD: University of Birmingham staff join a picket line outside the campus as staff at 44 universities around the country begin strike action on February 14 2022

BRITISH universities have not only benefited from slavery and colonialism but also continue to perpetuate it on an everyday basis on their teaching and non-teaching staff members. 

Unfair workload, the gender pay gap, racism and sexism are rampant in most of the UK universities, which are operating like family firms.

Most of the British universities are home to multiple forms of discrimination. Critical mass is a big lie.

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