Unconscious bias in higher education: A talk for International Women’s Day
…talk focused on women – but when you look at educational attainment in the UK, women are out-performing men at all levels and this impacts on university applications. The gender gap in British universities has almost doubled in size since 2007, and it’s particularly large in certain subject areas. This is such a serious issue that David Willetts called for white working class boys to be treated as a disadvantaged group in access agreements. Yet in…