Why Oriel College Oxford was right not to agree to take down a statue of the British imperalist.

If it’s ok to use research carried out in unethical experiments – as long as we acknowledge they were wrong – is it ok to keep a statue of an infamous imperialist?

South Africa’s president is direly unpopular and his government on the ropes – but protests against him are just empty symbolism.

Student-led campaigns have been calling out racism in universities for years. After a shocking incident at Nottingham Trent University, perhaps we should start to listen.

We teach children about the birth and end of Empire, but miss out the violence of what happened in between.

It's time race equality was practised in the academy, not just preached.

Statues and monuments have been used to present a revisionist history in which empire was great while omitting the violence they subvertly celebrate.

The ruling ANC has been seriously challenged by the Democratic Alliance, but South African politics is still about white privilege and black exclusion.

Rhodes was an ardent white supremacist who believed Africans to be inferior. He intended his scholarships to be for white males only. This has since fallen away.

South Africa’s universities have been told to set their own fee increases for 2017. That’s good news for institutions, but it hasn’t been well-received by many students.