FERSA University of Cambridge Blog

The FERSA Committee is an elected student-run group that represents the graduate student community at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. This open letter, collaboratively written by the members of the FERSA Committee, responds to recent and distressing public testimony made by a number of graduate students at the Faculty of Education regarding the harm they have endured during their pursuit of a higher degree at the Faculty of Education. This letter stands as FERSA’s statement in support of the Black graduate students at the Faculty, as well as the graduate students of colour and Indigenous graduate students at the Faculty; as a public recognition of the Faculty’s failures to address systemic racism and white supremacy within its bounds; and as an initial call to action, with the recognition that the Faculty’s permanent staff are the ones who must ultimately choose a course of action to take.