Equality Agenda seminar

The findings from the University's first Equality Agenda seminar are published today on the Personnel Department website.

The seminar was held in May as part of the response to the University's Equality Audit, the major investigation of its equality policies and procedures carried out last year. The report was accompanied by an agreed action plan which included the need to discuss the recommendations with Heads of Institutions, prior to developing more detailed and longer-term proposals for actions.

The May seminar centred around one of the Audit's major recommendations: the need to strengthen the University's leadership and management structures. Disability, ethnicity and the issues facing women were also discussed.

In his annual report to the Regent House the Vice-Chancellor reaffirmed his commitment to equality reform, stating that the Audit had offered "Pointers to the way in which the University's character has changed, and must change further."