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BME student attainment Claire Herbert Equality Challenge Unit 16 February 2012

BME student attainment Claire Herbert Equality Challenge Unit 16 February 2012. Our work. Established in 2001 to promote equality for staff in higher education in the UK Remit extended in 2006 to include students

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BME student attainment Claire Herbert Equality Challenge Unit 16 February 2012

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  1. BME student attainment Claire Herbert Equality Challenge Unit16 February 2012

  2. Our work • Established in 2001 to promote equality for staff in higher education in the UK • Remit extended in 2006 to include students • Funded by the 4 UK higher education funding Councils, Universities UK and GuildHE • 18 staff, covering 9 protected characteristics • From August 2011 working with colleges in Scotland

  3. Source: ECU publication ‘Equality in higher education: Statistical report 2010.’

  4. Complexity

  5. Summit programme • 15 institutions in 2008-09 • Purpose was to explore the approaches taken by institutions to tackle attainment differentials • Number of BME students did not seem to impact on attainment rates • Need to shift away from a legislative approach (Singh) • Work is at an early stage (Action on Access) • The most popular type of intervention seems to be mentoring and creation of a role model

  6. Policy focus Organisational • Inclusive learning and teaching • Internationalisation of the curriculum • Individual • Raising BME student aspirations • Supporting BME students to succeed

  7. Moving the work forward • Symposium and research with HE Academy • Systemic change project • Unconscious bias

  8. What is culture change? • I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time. • I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented. (and positively represented) • When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my colour made it what it is.

  9. What is culture change? • I can be pretty sure of having my voice heard in a group in which I am the only member of my race. • I can be pretty sure that my children's teachers and employers will tolerate them if they fit school and workplace norms; my chief worries about them do not concern others' attitudes toward their race. • I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.

  10. What is culture change? • I can do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to my race. • I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race. • I can worry about racism without being seen as self-interested or self-seeking. • If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.

  11. History of higher education Who was the monarch when King’s College, Cambridge was founded? 50:50 B: Henry VI A: Edward II (1422 – 1461) (1307 – 1327) C: William II (1087 – 1100) D: Charles II (1660 – 1685)

  12. Oldest universities in the world..... 2). University of Al Karouine, Fes, Morocco: 859 3). Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt: 970-972 4). Nizamiyya, Iran: 1065 Nalanda University: 2000 year old Buddhist University near Rajgir, northern India (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/oldest-university-on-earth-is-reborn-after-800-years-2042518.html) 5). University of Bologna, Italy: 1088 www.collegestats.org

  13. ECU contact details and any questions? 7th Floor Queens House 55/56 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LJ Tel: 0207 438 1010 Fax: 0207 438 1011 info@ecu.ac.uk www.ecu.ac.uk Claire.herbert@ecu.ac.uk 020 7438 1016

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