University wins Guardian Award

Tuesday 04th April 2017 19:15 EDT
 

The University of Wolverhampton has won a top industry award for its work to encourage staff equality. The University took the award for Advancing Staff Equality in the annual Guardian University Awards in London last Wednesday.

Judges picked out the University’s BME Steps to Leadership programme, which aims to tackle the lack of diversity in UK universities, especially at leadership level.

The University created a two-day personal development programme for its black and minority staff targeted at staff just below senior manager level to help raise participants’ confidence and develop their leadership skills.

Delivered in partnership with the Black Leadership Initiative, participants receive an assessment of their skills and attributes and a personal development action plan among other support. It is also followed by up to six individual mentoring or coaching sessions.

The first pilot of the scheme was a success – with 100% of participants reporting that the course was either good or excellent and judges noted it could easily be adopted by other universities and has been submitted as a best practice case to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

The Guardian University Awards showcases the work done in UK universities and has 15 categories covering a range of areas including student experience, sustainability, teaching excellence and inspiring buildings.


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