Thank you very much for this information Mannie and for all the other very helpful information that you are posting to the list. I found the Leeds Toolkit very clear and helpful. I have found something else that may be useful to colleagues on the CRE website. It is Performance Guidelines for Colleges and Universities. This is a short and clear document available as a PDF download. http://www.cre.gov.uk/duty/pdfs/pg_fehe.pdf
Regards
Melanie Landells
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Subject: FW: THE INSTITUTIONAL RACISM in HIGHER EDUCATION TOOLKIT
Mannie Kusemamuriwo
Policy Adviser: Ethnicity & Cultural Diversity
Equality Challenge Unit
3rd Floor, 4 Tavistock Place
London WC1H 9RA
Tel 020 7520 7063
Fax 020 7520 7069
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From: Emmanuell Kusemamuriwo
Sent: 02 August 2002 18:22
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Subject: THE INSTITUTIONAL RACISM in HIGHER EDUCATION TOOLKIT
Dear Colleagues,
Here is some information which I think could be very helpful to institutions
in implementing the RRAA General and Specific Duty requirements.I would
point out that particular attention could be paid to the attached
information on the Institutional Racism in HE Conference and the
Institutional Racism in HE Toolkit.
The Toolkit, though a growing document, is a very user friendly reference
document that will be able to assist those of our institutions that need it,
in the effective implementation of their race equality policies, action
plans, processes and procedures. I think the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism
Studies at the University of Leeds, using HEFCE funding,deserve commending
in that besides producing a very useful document, have been very timely in
launching it at a time when the RRAA requirements are demanding particular
ways of functioning from HE institutions.
The Toolkit covers all those HEI functions which carry a very high race
equality relevance and explains how institutions can best implement them,
from an RRAA General and Specific Duty response perspective.
I am also pleased to say it provides questions and answers in some of the
areas frequently brought up by HEIs as most challenging, for instance in
areas like Institutional racism, Target setting, Positive action, Ethnic
monitoring, Recruitment and selection, Responsibilities, accountabilities
and liabilities, Training,Good and bad practice indicators,Staff and student
issues, Consultation and Communication strategies and Data analyses,
Contractual compliance, and appropriate questions to ask.
The list is endless and you just have to read it to appreciate how useful
the Toolkit is in adding value to our institutional responses to the RRAA
requirements. What's more, we can actually add to its quality and contents,
by contacting and suggesting good practice ideas to the Team at the Leeds
University Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies.
The Toolkit can be found at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cers/toolkit/toolkit.htm.
In conjunction with the Toolkit, I would further advise colleagues to refer
to the HEFCE and CRE Race Equality Schemes which are very good, especially
in the way they are structured and their contents. They also address certain
areas which have been causing some anxiety within our own institutions, e.g.
how all our race equality policies could/should:
1. Acknowledge the Macpherson Report, its recommendations definitions
of institutional racism and a racist incident.
2. Define the RRAA's background and set the context for its statutory
requirements on all public bodies, including HEIs.
3. State why and how, through its Race Equality policy, each
institution is going to commit to the RRAA's statutory requirements.
4. Qualify institutional functions for relevance and proportionality to
race equality.
5. Incorporate and implement the Specific Duties into functions and
define various responsibilities, accountabilities and liabilities in
order to ensure appropriate institutional functioning under the
requirements of the RRAA's General Duty requirements.
6. Implement Consultation,Communication and Training strategies.
7. Formulate and implement effective Action or Implementation Plans and
Strategies.
As you might already be aware, the HEFCE Race Equality Scheme also spells
out what its requirements are for HEIs. These are currently subject to
consultation and HEFCE intends to hold two Consultation Seminars on 26 and
27 September, 2002. So I would suggest that given the HEFCE
requirements(which incidentally, are no more than those required by the
RRAA), and that institutions will be expected to comment, we could be
getting our communication and consultative strategies underway, in time to
give meaningful comments and suggestions to the planned HEFCE seminars. The
HEFCE RES can be found on www.hefce.ac.uk and the CRE RES can be found on
www.cre.gov.uk
Happy reading and all comments, suggestions and any other issues arising out
of all the above, will be most welcome, as usual.
Regards,
Mannie Kusemamuriwo
Policy Adviser: Ethnicity & Cultural Diversity
Equality Challenge Unit
3rd Floor, 4 Tavistock Place
London WC1H 9RA
Tel 020 7520 7063
Fax 020 7520 7069
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From: Laura Turney [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 July 2002 10:54
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Subject: CERSNews
Please find attached the July edition of CERSNews.
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hard copy to be sent to you through the post, please let me know.
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