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Ethnicity and differential degree attainment

Explore the impact of ethnicity on degree attainment, highlighting complexities and mitigating factors. Review findings, teaching practices, and individual engagement strategies for inclusive higher education.

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Ethnicity and differential degree attainment

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  1. Ethnicity and differential degree attainment

  2. HEA/ECU BME summit - participant universities’ 2007/8 data (Berry and Loke 2011) Aston; Bedfordshire; Bradford; Coventry; Greenwich; Hertfordshire; Leeds Metropolitan; London Metropolitan; Northampton; OU; Portsmouth; Roehampton ; Teeside; University of the Arts

  3. Research undertaken for the then DfES on Ethnicity and Degree Attainment in 2007 by Broecke and Nicholls... found that even controlling for a wide range of factors thought likely to contribute, coming from a minority ethnic community had a statistically significant and negative effect on degree attainment. • Findings from the 2008 ECU/HEA project ...highlighted once again the somewhat confusing and complex picture regarding degree attainment, ethnicity and the mitigating effects of socio-economic, educational and institutional factors for individual attainment. Improving the degree attainment of Black and minority ethnic students (Berry and Loke 2011)

  4. UH: Percentage of ‘Good degrees’ by Ethnicity 2009/10

  5. Developing an Inclusive Culture project

  6. Teaching practice: • Teaching environment - free from prejudice, discrimination and harassment? • Teaching style – does it take account of students’ backgrounds, language needs and varied learning styles? • Eurocentric curriculum? examples from different cultural backgrounds • Encouragement of students to be globally and culturally aware • Is race equality built into our teaching?

  7. Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University   TEACHING IN RACIALLY DIVERSE COLLEGE CLASSROOMS

  8. Case Studies

  9. UHSU Societies • 48 societies listed on the UHSU website • 9 associated with ethnicity/cultural background (e.g. Afro-Caribbean, Nigerian, Tamil, Greek, Kurdish) • 11 associated with religious belief

  10. Individual change: Shifting purpose for engaging staff in equality May and Bridger (2010) p. 86

  11. References: • May, H and Bridger, K (2010) Developing and embedding inclusive policy and practice in higher education. York: Higher Education Academy. • May (2010) Towards an Inclusive Culture: Engaging Students in Institutional Enhancement. Presentation accessed via www.heacademy.ac.uk Dec 2010 • Summit Programme to promote student success: ‘Improving the degree attainment of Black and Minority Ethnic Students’.  Accessed via http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/ourwork/inclusion/Coventryethnicitysummit Dec 2010 • Teaching in Racially Diverse College Classrooms. Accessed via http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58474/TFTrace.html Dec 2010 • Thornton (2009) BME workshop. University of Hertfordshire.

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