Professor Les Ebdon CBE Director of Fair Access to Higher Education Governments BME 2020 Challenge With the aim of improving labour market outcomes for people from BME backgrounds Ministers ID: 787637
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Professor Les Ebdon CBE
Director of Fair Access to Higher Education
Professor Les Ebdon CBE
Director of Fair Access to Higher Education
Slide2Government’s “BME 2020 Challenge”
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With the aim of improving labour market outcomes for people from BME backgrounds, Ministers from across government have been charged with:
increasing BME employment by 20% by 2020
increasing the number of
BME students going to university
by 20%
increasing
the proportion of apprenticeships taken up by
people
from BME backgrounds by 20%
ensuring
that 20,000 start-up loans are awarded to BME applicants by 2020
increasing
the diversity of the armed forces
increasing the diversity of police recruitment
Slide3Access to Higher Education
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Source: UCAS End of Cycle Report 2015
Entry rates for English 18 year old state school pupils by ethnic group
Slide4Student success and progression
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Retention rates are lower for all ethnic groups (apart from students of Chinese ethnicity) than their white peersThere are also significant differences in degree outcomes
Slide5Differences in outcomes by ethnicity
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Source: HEFCE 2013/14, Higher education and beyond: Outcomes from full-time first degree study
Percentage point difference of the outcome from the sector-adjusted average, split by ethnicity
Slide6First-degree undergraduates receiving a first/2:1 by ethnic
group.
Source: Equalities Challenge Unit Equality in higher education: statistical report 2014
Slide7Students from BME backgrounds report lower levels of satisfaction
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Least satisfied Most satisfied
Source: 2016 HEPI-HEA Student Academic Experience Survey
Slide8Race and ethnicity in access agreements
Two fifths of institutions have specific targets relating to BME students
16 per cent of access agreements have specific targets for raising BME attainment.
Slide9What more can be done?
Scale-up outreach activityDevelop inclusive curriculums
Increase transparencyMore cross-government working on fair access issues More collaborative work
Slide10Any questions?
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0117 931 7171
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