Unconscious bias training is ‘nonsense’, says outgoing race relations chair

Colin Prescod (left) and his successor as chair of the Institute of Race Relations, Dr John Narayan. Photograph: Handout

The outgoing chair of the Institute of Race Relations has decried the widespread use of “nonsense” unconscious bias training, claiming it is an obvious sidestepping of tackling racial injustice.

The civil rights stalwart Colin Prescod, who is stepping down after 43 years, likened the modish phrase to the 1970s term “racial awareness”.