Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre Attainment Gap between

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre Attainment Gap between White and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre 16/17 UH demographic data (Home/EU) 2016/17 National demographic data (ECU, 2018) 10% 21% 7% 1% 4% 1% 51% 18% 77% 5% 1% 4% Asian/Asian British Black/Black British Chinese Mixed • UH BAME population 49% Asian/Asian British Chinese Other Ethnic background Black/Black British Mixed White

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre National data showing the percentage of students from different ethnic backgrounds achieving a 1/2 i (‘good’) degree 79. 6% of white students received a first or 2: 1 compared with 66. 0% of BAME students, representing a BAME degree attainment gap of 13. 6 percentage points. (ECU, Student Report 2018, considering data from 2016/17)

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre Percentage of Home/EU students achieving a 'good degree' White 74 75 73 71 56 47 09/10 BME 75 55 76 75 58 57 76 74 56 57 58 48 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre UH Degree attainment according to ethnicity 80 Percentage good degree 70 60 50 40 White Asian Black 30 Chinese 20 10 0 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre Office for Students (2018) https: //www. officeforstudents. org. uk/data-and-analysis/differences-in-studentoutcomes/ethnicity/

Current activities Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre Of. S Collaborative Project (Value added data) BAME Staff Network BAME SUCCESS WORKING GROUP Close relationship with Hertfordshire Students’ Union LFHE for Programme Leader Project BAME Student Advocates

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre HEFCE/Office for Students funded project - 6 partners

UH Value Added Scores Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre UH Value Added Scores 1. 4 1. 2 1 0. 8 0. 6 0. 4 0. 2 0 2014 2015 2016 White BAME 2017 (indicative data)

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre Inclusive teaching workshops • 350 staff both academic and professional service teams • 40 degree programmes + central professional teams and students • Action plans developed with progress support for each Programme team

Identified Actions Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre Arranging whole team meetings which focused on presentations and discussions on BAME attainment Challenging module leaders to review their module reading lists to include more BAME authors The inclusion of BAME role models within the teaching materials/and or the inclusion of guest lecturers from BAME backgrounds Promotion of diversity and leadership schemes to students The communication to all students of a belief in their abilities and the promotion of self efficacy Discussing critical race theory within their own teaching, including recognising their own privilege Developing a better understanding of barriers for BAME students through working with BAME student advocates Developing the confidence of programme team members to enable them to talk explicitly about race within the context of their disciplines Promotion of unconscious bias workshops for staff teaching on the programme and subsequent open discussions about race

Change and Barriers to Change Effecting programme level change Personal commitment to inclusivity • In depth understanding of challenges • Previous engagement in training and awareness of national / local / discipline specific data • Changes to own practice • Identified clear actions to influence change across the programme • Workshop stimulated personal change in own practice (e. g. in interactions with students, in own teaching, within their module) • Identified needs for enhancements • Difficulties in influencing wider team (e. g. challenge of leading without line management responsibility and time pressures) Limited actions • New to discussions of race and lack of awareness of data • Distraction / discussion of other issues such as gender equality • Deficit approaches which solely focus on student support • Worried and not knowing really where to start

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre BAME Student Advocates

Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre • Personal commitment to understanding race, racism and white privilege… Reni-Eddo-Lodge Why I’m no longer talking to White people about race Kalwant Bhopal White privilege The myth of a post-racial society Dawid Konotey-Ahulu Winner of Black British Business Awards Entrepreneur- Leader https: //vimeo. com/296877192