< img src =" https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f2b11433fe6a4e276c2594f779870a25470a56f3/39_0_6880_5504/master/6880.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=1912bc57e2a37e3a3abd3897b3313b2e" alt="" > When the University of Cambridge selects a brand-new teacher, it does not usually make international headings. However Jason Arday was various. He was just 37 in 2023 when he became Cambridge’s youngest black teacher, specialising in the sociology of race and education. The achievement seemed all the more exceptional due to the fact that of his incredible back story.Born to Ghanaian moms and dads who transferred to the UK in the early 1980s, Arday was diagnosed with international development delay and autism spectrum condition at three years of age. He stated he had not learned to speak till he was 11 which he couldn’t truly check out and write up until he was 18. But he defied all expectations, and as his star rose, he got honours usually booked for celebrities.Yet almost as quickly as he began his professorship at Cambridge’s Jesus College
, the whispers began. At first, the focus was on his academic scholarship. However, the Guardian’s arts and culture correspondent Lanre Bakare tells Helen Pidd, the accusations grew out of control, and quickly every element of his life story was put under the microscope. On Wednesday night, he resigned.But how did this take place? And what does this inform us about how black scholars are treated by academic community and the media
?< img alt =" Jason Arday" src =" https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f2b11433fe6a4e276c2594f779870a25470a56f3/39_0_6880_5504/master/6880.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none" width=" 445" height=" 356"/ > Photo: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian