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Equal Opportunities
Background
In accordance with the relevant legislation and consistent with good management practice, the University formally adopted an equal opportunities policy. It confirmed the University's commitment to a comprehensive policy in employment and for students, and to a program of action to make the policy fully effective. To oversee implementation, the equal opportunities committee was established. Following the Wilson Review the University decided to appoint a designated Equal Opportunities Officer and to change the Equal Opportunities Committee to form the Equal Opportunities Advisory Group.
Policies
The University confirms its commitment to a comprehensive policy of equal opportunities in employment and for students in which individuals are selected and treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities and are given equal opportunities within the University. The aim of the policy is to ensure that no job applicant or employee, prospective student and students, should receive less favorable treatment on any grounds which are not relevant to good employment practices. The University is committed to a program of action to make the policy fully effective.
Advisory Group
Terms of Reference
1. To advise Staff Policy Committee
on matters relating to the formulation, implementation, evaluation review
of equal opportunities policies across the University, and to the fulfillment
of the University's Statutory obligations.
2. To monitor implementation of equal opportunities policies in the University
and, to this end, to receive reports, including statistical data, as requested,
from the responsible officers.
3. To advise the appropriate committees on student-related matter.
4. To receive the views of the Equal Opportunities Forum.
Equal Opportunities
Coordinators Each Budgetary Group has up to two Equal Opportunities Coordinators - nominally one to represent academic/academically-related staff, and the other to represent other staff.
The Equal Opportunities Coordinators are volunteers and their role is:
1. to assist in the implementation
of equal opportunities initiatives in the University.
2. to report regularly to the Equal Opportunities Forum on progress of equal
opportunities issues in their Budgetary Group.
3. to provide a focus for equal opportunities issues in their Budgetary
Group. The list of the Equal Opportunities Coordinators is available to members
of the University.
Equal Opportunities Resources
Books
The following are available on loan from the Equal Opportunities Officer:
Maternity and Paternity Rights
Employment Law Handbook
Harassment, bullying and Violence
at work
The Industrial Society
A Level Playing Field?
Equality and diversity
A job hunting guide for students and graduates - How to challenge unfair
discrimination
A Very Private Affair
by Pam Carter and Tony Jeffs - A book about sexual exploitation in higher
education.
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Equal Opportunity through new approaches to continuing vocational training
for female employees
Equal Opportunities Commission - Publications:
The Sex Discrimination Act
and Advertising - guidance notes Guidelines for Equal Opportunities Employers
Code of Practice on Equal Pay
Fair and Efficient Selection
Positive Action in Vocational Education and Training
Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value
Avoiding Sex Bias in Selection Testing
Appraising People
by Rob Letham and Peter Hill
Sex Discrimination Act 1975
Time off for Trade Union Duties and Activities by ACAS
Micro-Cosmographic Academia
- Being a guide for the young academic Politician
by F M Cornford
HIV & Aids
Guide by department of Education and Science
HIV & Aids
by UNISON
Concise Guide to the Custom
of Ethnic Minority Religions in Hampshire
published by Portsmouth Diocesan Council for Social Responsibility
Getting it Right - A practical
guide to help you manage work, home and your social life.
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