This means by April 2021 the College will have:
increased awareness of unconscious bias and the potential impacts of this on decision-
making amongst staff involved in student and staff recruitment
a trend increase in the number of male and female student enrolments in non-traditional
gender subjects and career choices including Foundation Apprenticeships and Modern
Apprenticeships
increased student participation in STEM Ambassadors and Ayrshire Connects and a
student male subject-career network established
enhanced staff recruitment processes by continuing to use alternative advertising
opportunities and e-recruitment technologies
improved support available to staff who are or become pregnant or have caring
responsibilities and undertaken specific work to promote retention and
career progression
Key priority:
Increasing staff disability disclosure
to tackle occupational segregation
The College data held on disability
demonstrates that 71.34% of staff have
disclosed that they have no disability in
comparison to 4.31% of staff disclosing that
they have a disability. These figures overall are
not significantly different from the earlier review
in April 2015 although it should be noted that
disability disclosure has increased from 3.33%.
These current figures however, may not identify
accurately the total number of staff who have
a disability due to the low rates of disclosure.
Disclosure rates in respect of disability will be
the focus of further work in order to identify
actions that can be implemented to improve
disclosure and therefore, increase representation
across application, recruitment, retention and
development of potential and current staff
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who have a disability. It is difficult to be able to
conclude whether the College is experiencing
occupational segregation either vertically and/
or horizontally and indeed whether this is
contributing to a pay gap between staff who
have a disability and those who do not.
It is known though that disability disclosure is:
1. higher in Service staff (3.13%) in
comparison to Curriculum staff (0.86%);
2. higher amongst female staff (2.80%)
in comparison to male staff (1.51%) and
3. higher amongst full-time employees in
comparison to part-time employees.