Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Arts University Plymouth’s Equality Scheme Implementation Plan sets out the objectives the university will be working towards over the next two to three years based on the three aims of the Equality Duty. These objectives will be focused on in the short-term and will be reviewed for achievement by the Senior Leadership Team in April each year.

Arts University Plymouth respects each person who studies or works at the university and treats each and everyone as an individual. Under the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations, we are legally required to publish anonymised information about our student and staff populations’ protected characteristics, in order to help our community understand the profile of the people accessing and working at the university.

We, therefore, report annually on age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership (in respect of unlawful discrimination - in terms of our employees), pregnancy and maternity, race (including ethnic or national origins), religion and/or belief, and sexual orientation. Wherever possible, we compare our data with local, regional and national records from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Neighbourhood Statistics, Local Authority reports and the national census 2011.

For more information, please download our Student & Staff Data document.

As part of the legal obligations for an employer with over 250 employees, we must produce a report using specific metrics for snapshot data from March 31 each year. We have one year to report on the gender pay gap within our organisation at this date and we must publish the figures to the government and our own website by 30 March 2023.

The metrics that we must provide are mean and median pay gap, and the proportion of female and male staff at each quartile band.

At Arts University Plymouth we strive towards social and gender equality while maintaining a high standard of education, and ensuring that staff receive fair recompense for the level of work that they complete.

The University compares favourably with the overall education sector with a lower gender pay gap. In comparison to the higher education sector the University is lower for the mean gap but slightly higher compared to the median gap.

Proportion of Males and Females in Quartile bands

The table below shows the percentage of female and male staff from each quartile.

Arts University Plymouth publicises its transparency return in accordance with the Office for Students (OfS) Condition of Registration F1.

The information published below shows:

• The number of students who attained a particular degree or another academic award, or a particular level of such an award, on completion of their course with us.

It shows these numbers by reference to:

• The gender of the individuals to which they relate

• Their ethnicity

• Their socioeconomic background

Table 1b

This table relates to attainment (full-time) at Arts University Plymouth and presents detailed information on attainment by characteristics for 20-21 qualifiers.

Key:
N = 24 or fewer students in this population
DP = Data suppressed for data protection reasons

Legend:
a = Headcount of classified First degrees awarded
b = Percentage of classified First degrees awarded as first class
c = Percentage of classified First degrees awarded as upper second class
d = Percentage of classified First degrees awarded as lower second class
e = Percentage of classified First degrees awarded as third class
f = Headcount of unclassified First degrees
g = Headcount of other undergraduate award