Former students have complained of sexism and racism at University College London’s leading architecture school going back a decade, alleging inappropriate comments were made about appearance and race and female students were sometimes brought to tears. The university said it had been “aware of issues” in the Bartlett school and was working to address them. The team subsequently monitored teaching and concluded female students were being treated differently. One former student, of south Asian descent claimed staff were “damaging primarily female students”. To them, studying architecture at a top school like UCL was a white and middle-class thing, not a place for a mixed-race, British, Black Caribbean woman with a working-class heritage.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2021 14:01 UTC