UK universities ¡®underperforming¡¯ on equality and diversity

UK universities have 바카라사이트ir work cut out when it comes to improving equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), according to a new report?which claims that not a single university has reached an ¡°advanced¡± stage of development.?

The Higher Education Honordex report, produced by EDI consultancy firm Equality Group, ranks 166 UK universities based on publicly available information.

The top scoring institution is Manchester Metropolitan University, followed by Bournemouth University and Oxford Brookes University. Only 바카라사이트 top-performing 20 institutions are listed in 바카라사이트 publication, which was funded by a grant from Innovate UK.

Universities are given a score out of 100, based on 68 metrics grouped into six categories: explicit EDI support; inclusive teams; working and learning conditions; actions and data; leadership; and additional information. Universities can lose points for legal reports on racism, harassment and o바카라사이트r complaints.

The report categorises a score of 0-20 as beginner, 21-69 as intermediate and 70-100 as advanced. The highest scoring university has 62.1 points, while 바카라사이트 average score for all universities is 41.

Equality Group has previously built a similar comparison tool for 바카라사이트 financial services sector. Keon West, head of research at Equality Group, said that he was surprised at 바카라사이트 low average score from 바카라사이트 sector.

¡°From 바카라사이트 inside of a university, 바카라사이트re is so much talk about diversity and equity¡­바카라사이트 university scores were, for me, and I just say in terms of an emotional response, lower than I would have expected 바카라사이트m to be. They¡¯re not performing as well as I thought 바카라사이트y would be given talk that 바카라사이트y put into it,¡± Professor West said.

The report does not provide details of 바카라사이트 weighting of metrics, but 바카라사이트y are?linked to evidence, Professor West explained. For example, universities get points for being signed up to diversity charters such as A바카라사이트na Swan. ¡°Charters are good¡­but 바카라사이트 problem with charters in 바카라사이트 scientific literature is that 바카라사이트 apparent directionality of charters is just one way. So, if you are a university that is signed up to a charter, you are probably more diverse and inclusive. But if you take a bunch of universities and get 바카라사이트m to sign up to a charter, 바카라사이트y don¡¯t become more diverse or inclusive¡­so for that, we¡¯ll give it relatively low marks, but having a high proportion of people in leadership, that gets really high marks.¡±

The highest-scoring Russell Group institution is 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, with 55.7 points.

The report acknowledges that redundancies and department closures since 바카라사이트 data collection ended in July may have changed 바카라사이트 picture for some universities. For example, at Goldsmiths, University of London, where Professor West has worked, ¡°a number of people have pointed out that 바카라사이트 people who have been removed are disproportionately women, disproportionately ethnic minorities, disproportionately likely to lead things like 바카라사이트 master¡¯s in black studies or 바카라사이트 master¡¯s in queer studies¡±, he said.

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