Race on the Agenda (ROTA) surveyed students at all London Higher Education institutions and interviewed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Leads from ten London Universities to explore why a disproportionate number of UK-domiciled students from Global Majority (GM) and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities choose to withdraw from university. Detailed findings will be published in…
ROTA is piloting a Higher Education research project. Although statistics show an upward trend in the numbers of UK-domiciled students from Global Majority and Gipsy, Roma and Traveller communities attending university, there is a higher withdrawal rate among these groups of students. ROTA's project explores reasons why students choose to withdraw, defer or change course. In…
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday 7 November 2013 Free schools failing on equalities, new research shows Race on the Agenda (ROTA) has published new research that shows that free schools are failing to comply with statutory requirements on equality. The research appears soon after the recent Ofsted inspection of the Al-Madinah free school…
ROTA PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6 November 2012 The Coalition Government has widely promoted free schools as part of a process to eradicate unequal opportunities. Findings from Race on the Agenda (ROTA) suggest that participation from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities (BAME), who are amongst some of the most acutely disadvantaged in education, is…
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