Ten actions to improve the experiences of Black students within UK universities: Patrice Seuwou outlines 10 steps UK universities can take to achieve greater transparency and fairness for Black students

During the 19th century, we saw key reformers such as Wilhelm von Humboldt and Cardinal John Henry Newman contribute to the idea of higher education. At that time, academia was dominated by white men and was a place to be trained to become a gentleman, someone who could behave well in society. It was a place for elites who could afford it, for the few, not the many.