GENDER, SKILLS AND EDUCATION - Business at...
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The UK’s European university
GENDER, SKILLS AND EDUCATION
Julia M Goodfellow, 24 October 2016 BIAC, Paris
BIAC –education priorities
‘versatile, skilled and employable’ - quote from chair of BIAC education committee
Priority areas from report:
• Curriculum and assessment
• Entrepreneurial education
• Teaching quality and school outcomes
• Vocational education and training at workplace
• Innovation in education and higher education
Comparator slide - 1970 versus 2014
1970 2014
15 School leaving age 18
8%
Percentage young
people going to
university
40%
33% Percentage of
women at university 56%
54% Percentage of GVA
from services 80%
My Career – Very Traditional
• BSc in Physics in 1972
• PhD in Biophysics
• Postdoctoral position at Stanford
• Fellowship and lectureship at Birkbeck
• Promotion to Professor
• Vice-Master at Birkbeck (deputy head)
• Chief Executive at BBSRC
• Vice-Chancellor at University of Kent 2007 – 2017
• President of Universities UK 2015 – 2017
% of UK Male and Female Students in Languages
and Computer Science – 2012/2013
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
Languages Computer Science
Female
Male
Gender and Science/Engineering
• Professor Higgins principle ( My Fair Lady) –
Why can’t women be more like men
Lower participation from the most disadvantaged
areas – UK entry rates to university .
2015 entry rates
Gender gap is larger for those from
disadvantaged backgrounds
Students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds enrolled in UK HEIs 2013-14
BME attainment
• White, Chinese and Asian students are above the
sector average in degree qualification
• Black, other Asian and Other students are below the
sector average in degree qualification
• BME students are below the average sector for attaining
at first or upper second classification
• BME students are below sector average in gaining
employment or entering further study after graduation
Focussing on the Student Journey
• School to University: recruitment to HE
With sector targets from government
• Progression while at University
• Employment; employability; future career • SMAG employer reference group established
Women in UK Leadership Positions 2016
7%
19% 19%
21% 22%
26%
35%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
FTSE 100 ChiefExecs
Chairs of HEgoverning bodies
FTSE 250 boardmembers
High Court Judges Vice Chancellors FTSE 100 boardmembers
Cabinet Ministers
Summary
• Massive positive change for women over a generation
• Still ‘glass ceiling’ and ‘glass cliffs’ effects for those further on in career
• Education/career trajectory dependent on social class and ethnicity as well as gender
• Young men –especially from white low social economic groups – not progressing from school to university in sufficient numbers
Government goals on widening participation
• Increase by 20% the number of black and minority
ethnic students going to university by 2020.
• Double the rate of entry into higher education
among those from the least advantaged backgrounds
• Special attention paid to young people from
Caribbean heritage and white British boys from
the most disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Ensuring that disabled people are able to fully
participate in higher education and achieve strong
outcomes