Despite the fact that 10 per cent of research assistants are from BME
backgrounds, only 6 per cent of those in academic leadership positions
are from such groups.
The data, published last month by the Higher Education Funding
Council for England, show that the proportion of BME academics drops by
one percentage point for each step of the career ladder. By contrast,
for the most part, the proportion of white academics steadily increases
by more than one percentage point with each career step.
In the 2013‑14 academic year, 8 to 9 per cent of lecturers and senior
lecturers and 7 per cent of professors were black or minority ethnic,
according to the data. This compares with 84 to 87 per cent of lecturers
and senior lecturers and 86 per cent of professors who were white.
From: https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/academics-from-bme-backgrounds-squeezed-out-at-the-top
1 comment:
Despite propaganda from university and college equality units, it has been my 30 years experience that our dear BME colleagues get it pretty hard starting at the bottom too!
Even in 30 years and across the country not merely in places where I myself have worked, the typical academic is still a grammar or public school educated white male....
Congratulations to all those BME and other colleagues who made it through the glass ceiling...
I will only be content when our typical academic is genuinely representative of our society!
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