Transforming the upper echelons of any institution is a slow and complex process, so until management of our colleges is as diverse as the staff across all levels, we have to find other ways to make sure that those in leadership roles are as well attuned to the needs of those to whom they answer.
At Milton Keynes College Group, we recently released our first ethnicity pay gap data. This illustrated anomalies you may have expected in terms of what people earn in relation to their backgrounds, but actually, the pay element is the least important bit of what we looked at. Pay is a starting point and a fairly blunt metric when it comes to examining your EDI. It tells you where you’ve ended up, but not how to get to somewhere better. And it’s the moving somewhere better we all want to achieve.
