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Equality and diversity
Inclusion. Diversity. They’re more than just words for us. They’re the hard-and-fast principles guiding how we build our teams, cultivate leaders and create a learning environment that’s the right fit for every person inside of it.
Our Values
We are one of the largest educational institutions and employers in a richly diverse area – we want to reflect that inside our walls.
In everything we do we will:
- Include
- Innovate
- Connect
- Challenge
Discover more about how we live these values via the tabs »
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Include
We create opportunities for all, raise aspirations, be diverse in our thinking and offer incredible support to our community.
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Innovate
We innovate – our IoT will forever be in beta mode as we seek to continuously refine and adapt our ways of working to respond to new technologies and learning innovations.
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Connect
We always seek to collaborate and form partnerships, developing a community among our stakeholders which will create opportunities and lead to a thriving alumni network.
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Challenge
We have boundless ambition in everything we do, solving real world problems and using non-traditional methods.
Our Vision
- Where everyone* is included, knows that they belong and that they matter, and can be their authentic self to achieve their full potential
- Which is representative of the communities it serves
- Which is proactive in ending prejudice and injustice wherever it’s found, and
- Which becomes a diversity and inclusion role model for other organisations, and drives improved ‘downstream’ diversity and inclusion within employer partners.
* By ‘everyone’ we mean: learners, staff, dual professionals, partners, members of the wider community and other stakeholders.
Our Priorities
- Create a culture of declaration, in which diversity-related data is captured, analysed and used to drive decision-making
- Improve the inclusion of our current students, and identify and address specific needs
- Develop mentoring and allyship programmes with partners
- With our learners, co-create an even more inclusive curriculum and student experience for the future
- Take proactive action against prejudice and hate (e.g. through relevant activities that support anti-racism, anti-homophobia, anti-islamophobia etc.)
- Engage proactively with prospective learners from under-represented talent groups
- Communicate in ways that support increased inclusion and celebrate our diversity
- Design-in inclusion at our IoT centres at Bletchley, Oxford and Reading
- Set a purposeful intention to recruit a diverse base of staff and dual professionals
- Cement the universal responsibility for supporting equality, diversity and inclusion