Name: Rwanda, Rochdale and the Middle East: the Podcast of Ideas returns by Academy of Ideas
Duration: 45 min 12 s
Description: Was the UK government's Rwanda scheme for asylum seekers doomed to fail? Why has it taken 20 years for the young girls who were victims of Rochdale's groom gangs to get justice? And why are they cheering the Houthis in New York?

Was the UK government's Rwanda scheme for asylum seekers doomed to fail? Why has it taken 20 years for the young girls who were victims of Rochdale's groom gangs to get justice? And why are they cheering the Houthis in New York?

Rwanda, Rochdale and the Middle East: the Podcast of Ideas returns

This is a recording from the Battle of Ideas festival 2021: https://archives.battleofideas.org.uk/2021/session/history-wars/

How should we decide what works of literature, art and history form the ‘canon’ in our curricula, and which historical figures should we choose to adorn our establishment buildings? Are today’s students really too sensitive to live and learn alongside Britain’s past, to appreciate that today’s moral standards are different to those of our ancestors? And how big is the issue of calls for decolonisation? Is the idea that the school or university curriculum should rely on codified knowledge of the past simply a desire to maintain the status quo?

Speakers:
- Nicolas Kinloch
history teacher; teacher fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies; honorary fellow, Historical Association; author, In Defence of Teaching History

- Dr Sean Lang
senior lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University; author, First World War for Dummies; fellow, Historical Association

- Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
head of education and co-ordinator, Don't Divide Us; author, What should schools teach? Disciplines, subjects and the pursuit of truth

- Sean Walsh
teacher; head of history

- CHAIR: Kevin Rooney
convenor, AoI Education Forum; politics teacher; co-author, The Blood Stained Poppy

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