“I have spent the last few months mentoring an ambitious, hard-working and enthusiastic robotics student called Liza through the Equal Engineers mentoring scheme. Liza is all these things, and also deaf. She was born with 80% “deafness” which puts her in the severely deaf category. I helped Liza work through some ideas on career prospects …
Challenges with diversity and inclusion within the engineering and technology sector are not just being faced by those working in the industry, but are prominent among engineering students who are part of underrepresented groups with protected characteristics. Students from diverse backgrounds face additional challenges in securing graduate employment in engineering. Statistics around student diversity in …
The fact is, graduates from BAME backgrounds are between 5% and 15% less likely to become employed compared to graduates from other backgrounds.
In case you missed it, Lesbian Visibility Week began on the 20th of April and ended on the 26th of April, aka Lesbian Visibility Day. Its aim was to show solidarity with every woman within the LGBTQI+ community by celebrating lesbians, bisexuals, transgender and queer women, including women of colour, those with disabilities, and those …
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STEM subjects are increasingly important in a globalised world, where skills are shifting and disruptive technologies are becoming increasingly popular
Nearly 20% of the 1.3 million people that work in the NHS are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME) – many of them working as doctors, nurses and midwives1.