Diversity in the Teaching Profession and Education Workforce subgroup

Overview

The Diversity in the Teaching Profession and Education Workforce subgroup is one of four workstreams within the Anti-Racism in Education Programme.

The purpose of the DITPEW subgroup is to build on the work led by Professor Arshad and the Diversity in the Teaching profession Working Group from 2018-2021, specifically building on the recommendations from the original report Diversity in the Teaching Profession: increasing and retaining minority ethnic teachers in Scotland's schools, and the more recently published Teaching in a diverse Scotland - increasing and retaining minority ethnic teachers: 3 years on.

Vision

The subgroup has a vision that Scotland's education workforce, at all levels, reflects and supports the racial diversity of modern Scotland, thereby enriching the education experience for the whole school community.

Actions

The activities presently proposed under this workstream may be classified into three categories:

• improve support for the Black and minority ethnic workforce within Scottish Education
• work with the Scottish Council of Deans of Education in supporting enactment for their framework for anti-racism within Initial Teacher Education and support institutions to take forward actions that will increase the number of Black and minority ethnic applicants, entrants and qualifiers
• collect, collate and analyse data relating to the ethnic diversity of Scotland’s education workforce. This includes identifying and addressing where gaps exist and considering what actions can be taken to improve data quality. Using this data to inform the actions of the wider Anti-Racism in Education Programme

Related work

• Curriculum reform sub-group
• Racism and racist incidents sub-group
• Education leadership and professional learning sub-group

Related groups

• Anti-Racism in Education Programme

Members

• Nuzhat Uthmani, University of Stirling - Co-Chair
• Hakim Din, Calabar Consultants - Co-Chair
   
• Education Scotland
• General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS)
• Scottish Council of Deans of Education (SCDE)
• Association of Directors of Education in Scotland (ADES)
• National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT)
• Education Institute of Scotland (EIS)
• Anti-Racism in Initial Teacher Education network (ARITE)
• Headteachers
   
• Catherine Law, Equality in Education, Scottish Government
• Anisa Omar, Equality in Education - Scottish Government (Workstream Lead)

Publications