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Promotes equality diversity and inclusion including reduction of degree awarding gap

Promotes equality diversity and inclusion including reduction of degree awarding gap

Better Understanding Study Motivation and Module Choice

Project Team: Suzanne ForbesElayne ChaplinSara Wolfson

Exploring and Testing Anti-Racism and Decolonising Pedagogy in Online-Forum Learning

Project Team: Alessandra MarinoGunjan SondhiKarl A. HackSuki Haider

Responding to Educational Need: Learnings from Time to Think

Project Team: Philip O’SullivanGabi KentMichael Doorley

Understanding African Postgraduate Student Experience

Project Team: Cristina SantosKevin DeaneFrangton Chiyemura Maureen Mackintosh

The higher education sector has recognised and aims to address recruitment, retention, and award gaps of BAME students.

Closing the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Enquirer and Recruitment Gap in FASS

Project Team: Karen HaganLystra Hagley-DickinsonPepta Joefield-BeebyAnna Clarke

The BAME Insight Factsheet produced by Marketing demonstrated that there is a BAME enquirer gap in the OU.

Embedding Accessibility into the Curriculum: An Accessibility Tool as a Checklist

Project Team: Rhiannon EdwardsShazna MuzammilVanessa Moore

The Accessibility Tool is currently being piloted on modules presenting in 22B and 22J with the goal of disseminating the final version across OU by 23J.

The Experience of BAME Students on DE300

Project Team: Sharon Xuereb

It is well documented that Black and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) students are awarded lower grades at university than their White counterparts. In the UK, a first class and second upper class degree classifications are considered ‘good degrees’.