Figure 9: A Comparison of the number of BME employees at the 1st December each year, over the last 11 University Ethnicity Profile The vast majority of the University workforce is 80.3%. The following most populated group – is Asian or Asian British - (5.0%), Chinese (2.6%) and other Asian background group (1.7%). There are 1.5% black employees (black or black British Caribbean, Africa and other black – background). The majority of BME are occupied in Levels 1a-5 support roles with 39.3%, with the biggest proportion of White and Indian ethnicity groups. Currently the University does not hold ethnicity information for 5.2% of all staff 1.9% refused to declare and 3.3% of respondents did – not answer the question (Table 15). In order to try to understand and address some of the possible reasons why the University is not attracting BME staff to apply for positions, the University signed up to the principles of the Equality Challenge Unit’s Race Equality Charter Mark, and will be submitting an application for Bronze status in February 2017. The submission has been written taking into account the University’s BME staff and student profile, responses to Staff and Student Race Survey and a series of focus groups that took place in 2016. Whilst it is recognised that there is still a considerable amount of work to be done to attract more BME staff and students to Warwick, the Race submission will have an action plan that will try to address some of the key issues that have been identified during the data collection and survey and focus group responses.
Figure 9: A Comparison of the number of BME employees at the 1st December each year, over the last 11 University Ethnicity Profile The vast majority of the University workforce is – 80.3%. The following most populated group is Asian or Asian British - (5.0%), Chinese (2.6%) and other Asian background group (1.7%). There are 1.5% black employees (black or black British – Caribbean, Africa and other black background). The majority of BME are occupied in Levels 1a-5 support roles with 39.3%, with the biggest proportion of White and Indian ethnicity groups. Currently the University does not hold ethnicity information for 5.2% of all staff – 1.9% refused to declare and 3.3% of respondents did not answer the question (Table 15). In order to try to understand and address some of the possible reasons why the University is not attracting BME staff to apply for positions, the University signed up to the principles of the Equality Challenge Unit’s Race Equality Charter Mark, and will be submitting an application for Bronze status in February 2017. The submission has been written taking into account the University’s BME staff and student profile, responses to Staff and Student Race Survey and a series of focus groups that took place in 2016. Whilst it is recognised that there is still a considerable amount of work to be done to attract more BME staff and students to Warwick, the Race submission will have an action plan that will try to address some of the key issues that have been identified during the data collection and survey and focus group responses.