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Monitoring ethnic representation in UK universities

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Recently launched report ‘Race into Higher Education’ presents a comprehensive review of current ethnic minorities in higher education. Based on detailed analysis of both the Office of National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey and the Higher Education Statistics Agency’s ‘HESA Student Record’, the report offers a support for the Government policy makers, university boards and UK industry, to see how the current ethnically diverse generation will affect tomorrow’s workforce.

According to the report, ethnic minority groups are better represented in UK universities than in the general population. Almost one in six (16.0%) of UK university students are from a Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background. This is up from 8.3% in 1995-96, the year in which Business in the Community founded Race for Opportunity. This increase is virtually in line with the growth in the BAME population from 7.7% of 18 to 24 year olds in 1995-96 up to 14% in 2007-08. (Business in the Community, 2010)

Source: Business in the Community, 2010

British Indians continue to be the best represented ethnic minority group within UK universities in 2007-08 (3.3%) as they were in 1995-96 (2.1%). They were followed by Black or Black British Africans (3.2%) who have almost tripled their university presence in the last 12 years, and finally, mixed ethnicity students constituted 2.1% of the university population. (Business in the Community, 2010)

The “Race into Higher Education” report presents the UK’s elite universities, regarding the students from ethnic minorities:Source: Business in the Community, 2010

Oxford and Cambridge recruit fewer ethnic minority students than the average for all other universities. However, the situation is different from one ethnic minority group to another.

The main performance indicator used within this report is % Ethnic minority students.

The report is available free of charge at: http://www.bitc.org.uk/workplace/diversity_and_inclusion/race/hesa_report.html

Additional resource:

smartKPIs.com (2010), “KPI examples for the Academic Education”, available at http://www.smartkpis.com/kpi/industries/education-training/academic-education/ (accessed 15 April 2010)

Reference:

Business in the Community (2010), “Race into Higher Education”, UK

Tags: Cambridge, Ethnic Minorities, Higher Education in UK, Oxford
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Monitoring ethnic minorities employment after graduation

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Employment rate of British students after graduation is another topic analyzed in the ‘Race into Higher Education’ report, which was mentioned also in a previous blog post.

The numbers presented in the report show that ethnic minorities are less likely to find employment after graduation, than their white counterparts: 56.3% of ethnic minority students who graduated in 2007-08 found work within a year, compared with 66% of white students. Both White and ethnic minority females are ahead of males in employment success by around four percentage points each. (Business in the Community, 2010)

Source: Business in the Community, 2010

According to Sandra Kerr, national campaign director at Race for Opportunity, “…only if more school leavers from ethnic minority backgrounds study at Oxford, Cambridge and other high achieving universities are we likely to see British ethnic minorities progress into senior management and key leadership positions.“(Business in the Community, 2010)

In order to support the increase in Higher Education for ethnic minorities and their chances to employment after graduation, the “Race into Higher Education” report makes the following recommendations:

British universities should monitor, report and improve on ethnic minority representation.
Increase awareness amongst ethnic minority school pupils of the importance of university choice.

The main performance indicators to support and monitor these initiatives are:

The report is available free of charge at: http://www.bitc.org.uk/workplace/diversity_and_inclusion/race/hesa_report.html

Additional resource:

smartKPIs.com (2010), “KPI examples for the Academic Education”, available at http://www.smartkpis.com/kpi/industries/education-training/academic-education/ (accessed 15 April 2010)

Reference:

Business in the Community (2010), “Race into Higher Education”, UK

Tags: Ethnic Minorities, Higher Education, Race for Opportunity, Race into Higher Education
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