Equality and diversity

The University has policies to ensure that all staff and students are fairly treated on grounds of age, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, creed, disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, religion, belief and non-belief, gender, marital or parental status, political belief or social or economic class.

The University is currently reviewing its policies in the light of the new legislation, the Equality Act 2010, which came into force on 1st October.

Relevant policy and guidance

• Equality and Diversity policies
• Equality and Diversity Committee
• Disability policies
• Disability Services' Guidelines for Tutors on specific impairments
• Advice on alternative exam arrangements for individual students
• Guidelines for making VLE material accessible
• Web Office guidelines on web accessibility
• Guidelines regarding the recording of lectures, seminars, etc. by students (MS Word , 15kb)

Sharing practice

• Projects
  • Recent projects
  • Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum project (2004-2006)
• Fora
  • e-Accessibility Forum
  • Race Equality Forum
  • LGBTI Matters Forum
• Forum learning and teaching magazine
  • Issue 19 (PDF , 1,850kb)

Sharing research

• Reviews of the current literature on teaching cross-cultural groups of students