Hi Yvie,
There is a Summary of the Act, and FAQs and a downloadable version on the
CRE website
http://www.cre.gov.uk/law/rra2000.html
Do you know about the CRE Higher Education Forum? This meets roughly once a
term at the CRE in London, and started out as a gathering of reps from HEIs
in the South East; a few of us from wider afield now attend.
At the last meeting, the CRE siad it would be preparing a Code of Practice
for education arising from the RR Ammendment Act, and would presetn this to
the Forum in July.
CRE also produces a 4 page A4 leaflet about the Act.
In the School of Education at Exeter we have made a recent 'push' on racial
equality. The following are the result of this, or earlier EO work here:
- a 'Language and Etiquette for equal opportunites' Policy, and Equal
opportunites Guidelines for Tutors when interviewing candidates for
Education coruses.
- a TTA funded project to improve the recruitment and retention of Black
and minority ethnic student teachers
- devoted a Staff development Day to 'tackling racism': staff from all
aspects of University work took part, i.e. domestic, security, academic,
clerical, administrative, technical, etc. In addition to the work that we
did on racial equality, this event really cut through the institutional
classism. Off the record, please, one academic colleague expressed ... well
, words to the effect that 'goodness me, domestic staff have ideas too,
don't they'!
Fancy that!
-the Staff development day provided the impetus to collate resources, which
will shortly go on our equal opportunites webpage
- as above, we have a very embryonic EO webpage within the School of
Education website.
-curriculum time in education is very very squeezed: to gain Qualified
Teacher Status, a trainee teacher has to provide evidence that they meet a
host of competencies (851 for a primary student) and not one of these is
about recognising, addressing or tackling racism. I can say that all
trainee teachers here get at least one lecture on tackling racism, but that
is far, far, far from adequate.
Power to your elbow!
Best wishes,
Nick Givens
>1) the Race Relations (Amendment) Act?
>2) promoting racial equality? Do any of you have specific policies
>promoting racial equality?
Lecturer in Design & Technology Education.
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