Recent reports in some sections of the media have criticised Advance HE’s Race Equality Charter (REC). They question our motivations and our work to support the higher education sector to tackle inequalities to address racism and harassment.
Advance HE’s work is entirely evidence-based. Our priorities are informed by our members and a broad range of sector and academic experts. We are an educational charity and not a campaigning organisation. Activism plays no part in our work. We have no particular ideological stance or agenda that we are seeking to promote. We do not seek to compel our members to adopt particular theories, methods or stances – indeed, we have no power to do so even if we wanted to.
Our purpose is strictly to support our members in working out approaches that are appropriate for them and which meet their circumstances and priorities in tackling some difficult, sensitive and contested issues in promoting Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) across the higher education sector.
