'Dearth of Black professors' shows university employers not doing enough to remove barriers, says UCU

'The dearth of Black professors within UK academia and overuse of insecure fixed term contracts shows the barriers preventing underrepresented groups from progressing remain rampant across higher education. Given today's news, it is clear employers are not doing enough, and university employer body UCEA now needs to re-engage with the working groups it had agreed to set up with UCU and our sister unions and jointly address insecure contracts and inequality.'