ECU's work in Scotland

ECU works to further and support equality and diversity for staff and students in higher education and in further education in Scotland. Alongside funding for ECU's UK wide work and projects, the Scottish Funding Council funds ECU to deliver work and projects specifically for higher education institutions (HEIs) and for colleges in Scotland. 

Liaison groups

ECU runs a Scottish liaison group involving equality and diveristy practitioners and relevant others for each sector. 

• Scottish HEI liaison group
• Scottish college liaison group

Scotland specific work

Work is developed in consultation with the sectors via the liaison groups.

HEI work

• Attracting international students: equitable services and support, campus cohesion and community engagement
• Digitisation and reformatting working practices
• Mainstreaming equality through governance and management
• Access, retention and success: aligning widening participation and equality strategies

College work

• Embedding equality within college quality reporting frameworks
• Equality in Scotland's colleges: statistical report

Joint sector work

• Mainstreaming: equality at the heart of further and higher education

Recent activities in Scotland

• The final meeting of the college teams for the mainstreaming projcet was held on 17 April at South Lanarkshire College.
• ECU ran a train the trainer session on equality in the Research Excellence Framework in Edinburgh in March.
• A workshop on extending working lives was delivered for colleges and HEIs in March.
• Workshops presenting the findings of the Male student experience project were provided at the SFC Learning for all conference.
• ECU held the first national meeting of the Scottish college liaison group on 8 March at Scotland's Colleges in Stirling and provided a workshop on generating greater buy-in for equality impact assessments. 
• The final meeting of the HEI teams for the mainstreaming project was held at the University of Stirling on 18 January.

Upcoming activities in Scotland

• ECU will be holding the second national college liaison group meeting on 31 May and will provide a session on setting equality outcomes.
• A conference to launch the findings of the Attracting international students project will be held at University of Edinburgh on 28 May.
• The next HEI liaison group meeting will be on 18 June.
  

Scottish news

• Scottish public sector equality duty regulations announced
• ECU response to the Scottish Government consultation on the revised draft specific duties
  
• ECU response to the Scottish HEI fees consultation
• Scottish specific duties withdrawn
• ECU to support colleges in Scotland
• Initial findings of ECU's mainstreaming project published