Continued Monitoring of College Success Rates for Specific Groups to Ensure No Significant Difference Between Objective 5 Groups is Maintained Public Sector Advance equality of opportunity Equality Duty Comment College success rates and value-added Final Ofsted (October 2015) found: are no significant gaps “There (2012) show no significant difference (no more comment on between the achievements of different groups of students”. than 5% from the college norm) by progress However, there are emerging gaps between female and male gender, ethnicity or disability. (2016) performance, 19+ success rates and 16-18 students ‘other mixed’ and ‘white/black Caribbean’. Actions include: monitoring at curriculum and whole-college level analysis of university progression data Processes for Staff and Student Consultation, Feedback and Evaluation to be Reviewed and Strengthened Objective 6 Public Sector Foster good relations Equality Duty Comment The college currently has an Equality and Final There are now an increased number of ways consultation takes (2012) Diversity Committee, which meets to comment on place; equality and diversity has been further integrated into the assist SLT and cross-college leaders in progress consultation with students in our quality college’s quality systems; discussing and implementing equality and (2016) processes routinely includes reference to equality and diversity diversity policy. There has also been issues. consultation at CMT level with regard to training needs for teaching staff and all Actions include: staff consultation on equality objectives. review of Student Council creation of Staff, Parent and Employer Councils review of quality systems consultation and feedback on new college Equality and Diversity policy (2015)
Objective 5 Continued Monitoring of College Success Rates for Specific Groups to Ensure No Significant Difference Between Groups is Maintained Public Sector Equality Duty Advance equality of opportunity Comment (2012) College success rates and value-added show no significant difference (no more than 5% from the college norm) by gender, ethnicity or disability. Final comment on progress (2016) Ofsted (October 2015) found: “There are no significant gaps between the achievements of different groups of students”. However, there are emerging gaps between female and male performance, 19+ success rates and 16-18 students ‘other mixed’ and ‘white/black Caribbean’. Actions include: monitoring at curriculum and whole-college level analysis of university progression data Objective 6 Processes for Staff and Student Consultation, Feedback and Evaluation to be Reviewed and Strengthened Public Sector Equality Duty Foster good relations Comment (2012) The college currently has an Equality and Diversity Committee, which meets to assist SLT and cross-college leaders in discussing and implementing equality and diversity policy. There has also been consultation at CMT level with regard to training needs for teaching staff and all staff consultation on equality objectives. Final comment on progress (2016) There are now an increased number of ways consultation takes place; equality and diversity has been further integrated into the college’s quality systems; consultation with students in our quality processes routinely includes reference to equality and diversity issues. Actions include: review of Student Council creation of Staff, Parent and Employer Councils review of quality systems consultation and feedback on new college Equality and Diversity policy (2015)
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