SHAMEFULLY white, it’s time for Western science to face up to the embarrassing fact that it excludes black people, says Â鶹´«Ã½ (9 March, p 3, p 44). I brought this magazine’s recent interview with Elizabeth Rasekoala to science minister David Sainsbury’s attention. I asked him what the government is doing to right this wrong.
Sainsbury said black children must be helped to see that science has something exciting to offer them and that there are enough role models who can encourage them to take up science careers. Racial equality must also be transparent in the way all public…
