Race Equality Action Plan
Policy Development and Review
The College has established an Equality Committee chaired by the President.
[Made in accordance with the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000]
The Equality Committee will have overall responsibility for coordination of policy development and the identification of priorities for the current academic year, and will report to Governing Body on a termly basis.
The College will throughout the current academic year
a) incorporate race equality planning into strategic planning and policy development and
b) make specific provision for race equality issues in strategic plans for the current academic year.
Governing Body and all its committees will continue to incorporate consideration of race equality issues and the duty to promote race equality in the development of policies and procedures at all levels.
The College will, during the current academic year, continue to review College regulations, student disciplinary procedures, and student complaints procedures to ensure that all procedures are fair and equitable and consistently implemented.
The College will, during the current academic year, continue to review staff disciplinary and grievance procedures to ensure that all procedures are fair and equitable and consistently implemented.
The College will, during the current academic year, keep under review its existing code of practice on harassment as to both staff and students.
The College will, during the current academic year, keep under review its procurement policies.
Student Support
The College will, through its Equality Committee, continue to ensure that its procedures for allocating student accommodation are fair and equitable.
The College will, throughout the current academic year, keep under review its procedures for distributing bursaries, scholarships and hardship funds to ensure that they are fair and equitable.
The College will, throughout the current academic year, keep under review its provision of student pastoral support and welfare services to ensure that these are equally accessible to all members of the College community, to promote good relations between different racial groups.
Staff recruitment and selection
The College will, through its Equality Committee, keep under review its procedures for the recruitment and selection of college staff in order to ensure equality of opportunity.
Consultation
The College will, during the current academic year continue to ensure that ethnic minority staff and students are involved in consultative forums and that these groups are consulted in the development and maintenance of the race equality policy.
Undergraduate admissions
The College will continue to work in partnership with the Oxford Colleges Admissions Executive to support the implementation of the Executive's action plan on undergraduate admissions.
The College will continue to implement the Oxford Colleges Admissions Executive's Code of Practice on Undergraduate Admissions as agreed by the Conference of College and the Admissions Executive.
The College will continue ensure that all those involved in undergraduate admissions have received appropriate briefing on the implications of race equality in selection of students.
The College will, during the current academic year, continue seek to ensure that all subject selection panels contain at least one member who has participated in Oxford University seminars on student selection.
Graduate admissions
The College will, during the current academic year, keep under review its procedures for selecting graduate students to ensure that decisions are made fairly and equitably.
Monitoring arrangements
The College will do everything possible to ensure that the following functions are subject to continuing monitoring in the course of the current academic year,
a) Staff selection and progress (college appointments only)
b) Staff grievances, discipline and access to training (college appointments only)
c) Student admissions, progress and performance
d) Student complaints and discipline
Impact assessment
The Equality Committee will, as soon as possible, seek to identify criteria against which the outcome of monitoring can be assessed.
In the event that the outcome of monitoring discloses potentially adverse impact on a group or groups, the Equality Committee will bring this to the attention of the appropriate committee for consideration and action including further research, where appropriate.
Publishing arrangements
The College will continue to publish the Race Equality Policy and Action Plan on the College's website, and will continue to distribute copies to staff.
The Equality Committee will, in consultation with relevant committees, set out a time-table for publication for the results of monitoring and assessments, including information on consultation undertaken as part of the assessment process.
Guidance, support and training
The College will, on an ongoing basis,
a) review the training opportunities available to all of its staff and introduce additional provision where necessary or desirable
b) assist in the dissemination of information, briefing material, guidance and advice from the University.
Race Equality Action
The College will continue to review its publications to promote access and participation among students of diverse ethnic groups.
