South west Composites Gateway project Equality and diversity presentation.

1. South West Composites Gateway (SWCG)
FEKE pilots Equality and Diversity
Best Practice Workshop
Somerset College, Genesis Centre,
13 June 2011

2. SWCG
Project
South West Composites
Gateway Project:
Equality and Diversity Best
practise .
Jerry Corless – Project Manager
Michael Ilogu – Project Officer

3. What is SWCG ?
- a new project designed to
Support the global competitiveness of
the south west composites industry by
Supporting
Drawing on the rich
businesses to
diversity of existing Creating innovative
mechanisms to capitalise on the
Support the global competitiveness of
expertise in the
region to build provide business opportunities
the south west composites industry by
capacity in solutions from a
sustainable
afforded by the
application of
composite design,
manufacture, partnership of FE composite materials
in advanced
assembly and repair and HE providers
engineering

4. SWCG
- project activities
Establish
Meeting business needs for
collaborative FE / composite technology support
HE network and services
delivery mechanism
Develop strongly
‘branded’ Gateway Informed response – ‘One Stop
– virtual and Shop’ with necessary links
physical location
Support the global competitiveness of
the southpartners to composites industry by
network west
Support for Access to composites expertise,
effective engagement models
develop delivery Collaborative, multiple source
capacity solutions
Engage with businesses and provide
Project Planned business assists to improve
Outputs performance

5. SWCG
- project services
The Gateway provides a hub that
Knowledge SMEs(Businesses) can tap into,
helping businesses to take up and
Exchange exploit new technology
From analysing specific needs to
Consultancy identifying relevant support
opportunities, the focus is on improving
the performance of businesses
Support the global competitiveness of
theTechnology compositestoindustry by
south west through flexiblelearn new techniques
Business can
access high quality
solutions facilities and workshops
Training and Gateway partners offer training courses
that lead to qualifications and improved
qualifications skills and knowledge

6. SWCG
- Institutional approach to Equality and Diversity
Equality and Diversity:
Using City of Bristol
College's (CoBC)
approach in the
delivery of SWCG
project.

7. SWCG
- CoBC– Equality and Diversity introduction
City of Bristol College recognises its responsibility to promote equality and diversity.
CoBc value the diversity of all individuals who study or work in the college, and the
contribution they make to the success of the college.
CoBc aim to provide a safe and supportive
environment in which everyone is able to
study and work to achieve their goals.
CoBc do not tolerate behaviour from
students, staff or visitors, which may
constitute harassment or discrimination.

8. SWCG
- CoBC– Equality and Diversity approach (management)
Executive lead (The Director of Foundation Skills and Progression)
Chairs the Equality and Diversity strategy group ( meets regularly, to )
Develop and implement the monitoring requirements in line with
legislation.
Determines the key priorities for the coming year and the actions to
address them.

9. SWCG
- CoBC– Equality and Diversity approach 2009/2010
CoBC work on equality and diversity in the last year has concentrated on
three specific aspects:-
Active promotion of Equality and diversity
Narrowing achievement gaps between different cohorts of learners
Attracting a Diverse Workforce

10. SWCG
- Delivery against Equality and Diversity cross cutting theme
Projects can demonstrate that we have actively considered this theme,
e.g.:
· Equal opportunities was considered during project design;
· Positive action has been implemented within the project, for example,
during recruitment, policies or procurement;
· The needs of equality target groups including women, disabled people
and BAME (black and minority ethnic) communities have been researched
and the potential for adverse impact considered;
· Equal opportunities is being monitored, reviewed and evaluated based
on information captured. Management Ethnicity (if required) Gender (if required)
White Black - Caribbean Other Male managed
Mixed Black - Other Prefer not to say Female managed
Asian Chinese No clear majority Prefer not to say
Black Chinese - Vietnamese No clear majority
Black - African Indian Sub Continent
Management Age & Disability (if required)
0 - 15 Years 16 – 24 Years 25 – 49 Years 50 – 64 Years
65 + Years Are any members of the management team registered as disable Yes No
De Minimis State Aid
Has your business received more than €200,000 in support from any government agency within the last 3 years?
(This might impact on your ability to receive additional assistance) Yes No

11. SWCG
- Equality and Diversity best practice
Project objective Examples of best practice
Representative Project Governance Members of the Project Board will be
representative. The current FE Network Group is
chaired by a Female Engineer.
Established industrial steering group that Increase in numbers of BME and non traditional
drives recruitment of BME and non gender apprentices in composites, by using Stem
traditional gender apprentices in composites Ambassador to assist in promoting Composites
Engineering in schools and when operating CPD
events.
Requirement for Equality and Diversity The formation of the Gateway partnership is
Policies to be in place with all the Network
dependent on the HE and FE collaborators
partners
confirming they have a HEFCE or OFSTED
approved equality and diversity policy

12. SWCG
- Equality and Diversity best practice
Project objective Examples of best practice
Representative Gateway Delivery All vacant posts will be recruited to in accordance
Team with the equal opportunities policy of CoBC.
Current team = 40 % female, 10% BME.
Address gender /BME difference in student Success rates of non- traditional gender and BME
success where significant difference students same as College Success.
Monitoring of the attendance of Gateway Monitor and actively encourage (through
events including skills development services marketing) underrepresented groups to attend
provided Gateway events. Registrations for OOA:
6% female compared with 9% female in
Professional Engineering positions nationally:
(source SEMTA) 5% BME

13. SWCG
- Promotes women in Engineering and Technology
What we know ………..
Girls and women remain under
Although girls perform
represented in many of these
equally to or
areas even though they are
better than boys at A
qualified to study and work in
level - they continue
them.
to be a minority in most
Gender stereotyping in STEM STEM subjects
subjects and career choice (UKRC, 2010).
directly contributes to the
gender pay gap (women's pay
is 17% less than men's
according to EHRC). The UK was found to have the
lowest percentage of female
professional engineers out of
28 European countries in a
recent analysis of labour force
Source WISET newsletter
statistics (8.7%) (UKRC, 2007).
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