Diversity and Inclusivity Training. It is mandatory for all staff and managers to attend a diversity and inclusivity training. Workloads shall be reduced to provide time for this training.
Diversity and Inclusivity Training. As discussed above, all University Staff are required to undertake the Equality Impact Assessment e-learning module, and this serves to mainstream the importance of considering equality in all strategic considerations. Our E&D Advisor is currently looking into potential content and presentation that will allow us to expand our staff and student training provision. We aim to develop new online equalities training with our Educational Development Unit (EDU), covering concepts of equality, diversity and inclusivity. By moving away from a sole focus on legislative requirements, we hope to normalise inclusive behaviour, and create an opportunity for staff to consider daily challenges from different perspectives. It will also enable us to collate, share and report on completion rates. We hope that that partner colleges will adopt this resource, allowing us to ensure consistent E&D training across the partnership. Part of our attempt to facilitate this will involve prospective talks with all partners to gain insight into local equality contexts, ensuring that everyone has the chance to feed into this learning opportunity to ensure that the resource is universally relevant. We will seek to inform training development through focus groups with key stakeholders, including Quality, Admissions and Learning & Teaching, who have advised they are keen to participate. Our E&D Advisor and Disability Support Coordinator are currently discussing production of a comparable e-learning resource for training relating to considerations necessary to accommodate students and staff with disabilities. As previously discussed, the E&D Advisor will explore face-to-face training options with HISA- whether through class reps, or delivered directly to students en-masse. We will investigate the possibility of delivering biennial induction sessions to new staff. If feasible we hope to explore running at least one annual session at each partner, subject to demand and capacity. The University has co-created a Corporate Parenting e-learning module with EDU, which was launched in January 2018. The module is mandatory for all University staff, as all staff have a role to play as corporate parents: solid knowledge and understanding of care contexts are vital to providing equivalence of experience between those who share these circumstances and those who do not. Our Student Support Manager is currently investigating which partners make this training mandatory, and their local uptake: we will repor...
