Nick
Thanks very much for this.
Is the HE forum likely to spread further North? Do you have a contact
for the London-based group?
Many thanks again.
Yvie
Nick Givens wrote:
>
> 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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Yvie Holder
Equal Opportunities Adviser
Registrar's Department
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
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