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• Provide pastoral support and advice for students who are the

first generation to attend university.

• Issues around employability centre on low social capital not just
race; pre-university ‘aspiration raising’ should centre on

becoming the ‘post-graduation employed’; engagement with all
students should take place early, involving employers. Students

need to understand the job market, be provided with
opportunities for networking and have opportunities to rehearse

their own narratives of the employable self. They should also be

encouraged to understand the impact of achieving an upper
second- or first-class degree on graduate employability.

• Universities - Engage with the Race Equality Charter. They will
aid you in improving the representation, progression and

success of minority ethnic staff and students within your

university. https://www.ecu.ac.uk/equality-charters/race-
equality-charter/

Good Practice Recommendations for an Inclusive Education

• Students will feel loyalty to a school/college/university if they
feel valued, appropriately challenged and have opportunities to

progress. This is the same for staff.

• All students should be viewed as partners in the educational

journey and systematically involved in the design and
implementation of inclusive learning, teaching and assessment

activities.

• Introduce a ‘student voice’ made up of students and from a
range of backgrounds to enable their views, issues and ideas to

be aired and heard…and acted upon.

• Institutions should put strategies in place to ensure staff feel

able, and empowered, to develop effective relationships with all
students; these relationships should be built on a sharing of

power and responsibility.

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