Equity in higher education

Find out how to ensure that all students and staff within higher education have an equal opportunity to succeed, regardless of individual challenges or varied educational backgrounds. Equity is about ensuring university support and policies enable everyone to flourish, taking into account the wide range of differing needs across a campus community, as these resources explain.

By Eliza.Compton, 11 August, 2025

EDI is meritocracy – why is that hard to understand?

Balloons, meritocracy concept illustration
Equity, diversity and inclusion is misunderstood when it is seen as valuing identity instead of skill within the systems that determine academic career progression. But it is in the sector’s interest to recognise and support talent, no matter what it looks like, writes Brooke Szücs
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5minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 8 August, 2025

How universities can move from DEI backlash to breakthrough

Identity threat concept
Identity threat – when individuals or groups feel devalued – can undermine equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives. But if universities reframe this conflict, it can result in growth and new perspectives, write Camellia Bryan and Brent Lyons
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4minutes
By miranda.prynne, 7 August, 2025

A common enemy approach to anti-racism in higher education

Protestors on the Stand Up to Racism & Facism march in London in 2015
We need to rethink how we understand and advance anti-racism work in universities, treating racism as ‘our common enemy’ and adopting a unified approach to tackling it, writes Paul Miller
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4minutes
Equity in higher education