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Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic student attainment at UK universities: #closingthegap
A report setting out five steps universities can take to help close the attainment gap which exists between students of different ethnicities at UK universities.
Black, female and postgraduate: why I cannot be the only one | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional
Blog article by Janine Bradbury, a Black, female postgraduate student
Case Studies -Inclusive Practice within Programmes
These 11 case studies have been developed as part of the Leadership Foundation Bid. Following attendance at an inclusive practice workshop programme leaders were interviewed to identify actions to enhance inclusivity within their programme with the aim of reducing the BME attainment gap. the case studies are drawn from different Schools within the University and also include undergraduate and postgraduate programmes
Decolonising the Curriculum resources
Connections to resources for decolonising and diversifying the curriculum
Implicit Association Tests
Implicit Association Tests (IATs) are used within Psychology to help people understand their thoughts and behaviours. You may like to consider and test your own racial or cultural biases by working through an IAT. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods.
There are lots of tests on the site including tests to consider age and disability biases as well as race. There is useful background information and you may like to work through one or two of the tests to help you identify any unconscious/implicit biases that you weren't aware of.
Leadership Foundation project report
This is the report for the Leadership Foundation funded project entitled ‘Academic leadership at the programme level to address the BME attainment gap’. The report provides details of our discussion with programme leaders and led to the development of the 11 case studies of good practice.
News article about difficulties in employment
This is a link to an article on the BBC news site indicating difficulties faced by BME females when job seeking
OfS Value Added project and Leadership Foundation funding
The University successfully bid for OfS funding as part of a collaborative project to use a value-added metric and an inclusive curriculum framework to address the black and minority ethnic attainment gap. The project involves seven Institutions and will focus on the use of the Value Added (VA) metric and an inclusive curriculum framework (and our own inclusive teaching toolkit) to stimulate change at programme/discipline level within the University. Kingston University are the lead institution.
Alongside the HEFCE bid, we were successful in a bid to the Leadership Foundation to support programme leaders in their implementation of inclusive teaching practices identified as part of the HEFCE project. Details of both projects are available below
Presentation about National and UH BAME student attainment
I have put together this presentation to provide information for staff about the BAME attainment gap. The presentation includes National and UH data as well as information on the University's project to reduce the attainment gap.
Ten Top Tips for supporting BME student success
We have drawn up a list of top ten tips to support BME student success. These largely relate to learning, teaching and assessment activities but tips associated with inclusive verbal and body language plus acting to stop dicriminatory language or behaviour obviously applies both within and beyond the classroom
Why is my curriculum white? - YouTube
In the NUS Black Students Campaign National Students Survey, it was found that, '42 per cent did not believe their curriculum reflected issues of diversity, this video by students at UCL discusses the reasons for this, the potential impact and what can be done about it.
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