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A network for U.K. equality and diversity managers in private companies

The Vanguard network provides a confidential forum for senior equality, diversity and human resources in private sector companies to interact with peers from more than 30 companies that publicly champion diversity, exemplify best practices and provide input to proposals from U.K. government departments.

We are currently in phase 2 of our study of employee resource groups, conducting interviews with diversity leaders in selected organisations. In the meantime, we’ve been crunching the numbers from phase 1 in which we surveyed 64 organisations about their ERGs. Some...

By Michal Fineman and Elizabeth MacGillivray
ORC Worldwide

The 24th June meeting of the Global Diversity Forum was the largest meeting in its history since the network launched in 2006. The meeting drew a global audience from over 40 organisations in the...

Female students wearing a full face veil will be barred from Syrian university campuses, according to the country’s minister of higher education.  Ghiyath Barakat was reported to have said that the practice ran counter to the academic values and tradition of...

Vince Cable, the Skills Secretary, has proposed that bright children from poorer homes should benefit from better access to the UK’s top universities through reserved places.  His proposals raise the possibility of quotas for state school children and a...

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