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UK universities must demonstrate their commitment to university-wide change as they seek to eliminate the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) student attainment gap in UK higher education, concludes a new report by Universities UK (UUK) and the National Union of Students (NUS).
Led by Baroness Valerie Amos, Director of SOAS, and Amatey Doku, Vice President for Higher Education at the NUS, UUK and the NUS have been working with universities and students since June 2018 to tackle the disparity between the proportion of 'top degrees' (first or a 2:1 degree) achieved by white and BAME students.
Today's publication of the report - Black, Asian and minority ethnic student attainment at UK universities: #ClosingtheGap - follows contributions from 99 universities and student unions and six regional roundtable evidence sessions with 160 attendees on how the attainment gap should be tackled. These five steps for universities to improve BAME student outcomes have been identified:
