This is great news.
Mel
Melanie Landells
Head of Equality & Diversity
Secretariat - Equality & Diversity
4, Portland Villas,
Plymouth University
Plymouth PL4 8AA
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-----Original Message-----
From: HE Administrators equal opportunities list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Felicity Cooke
Sent: 14 December 2005 17:06
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Education institutions and gender equality specific duties
Dear Chrissie
If this means what I think it does - then great!
Regards (and to the list!)
Felicity
-----Original Message-----
From: HE Administrators equal opportunities list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chrissie Pepper
Sent: 14 December 2005 17:03
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Education institutions and gender equality specific duties
> Dear colleagues
> I would like to draw your attention to the announcement by Meg Munn MP
> during
the Committee stages of the Equality Bill in the House of Commons last
Thursday (8th December) that:
> "the Minister for Schools has confirmed that she agrees, in principle,
> to
extending the specific duties to education on the understanding that our
officials continue to work together to ensure that appropriate
arrangements for different education bodies are agreed, and that the
relevant regulations and supporting guidance on the way in which the
specific duties will apply are light touch, flexible and relevant to the
realities of life in school and at other levels of education."
>
> With best wishes
>
> Chrissie
>
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