Inclusive teaching and Awarding Gaps

Inclusive Teaching

Our approach to Inclusive Teaching has continued to develop over the years. In 2019 we introduced anti-racism workshops for our faculty and we have now added anti-sexism resources. On this page you can find a range of resources to help you develop your own teaching.

The Awarding Gap due to race (which used to be called the attainment gap), is the gap between the mean grades awarded to White students and the mean of grades awarded to students from Black, Asian and all other ethnic backgrounds. There is a gap in every HE institution in the UK.  

The gap on the MB ChB Course is now 8.4% (a reduction from 12.6% in 2019), which means that despite all our students beginning the MBChB with a 2:1 or a 1st class previous degree, our students from minority ethnic backgrounds still leave the medical school with lower overall marks and awards than their white peers.

This inequality is unacceptable and as a member of the WMS Faculty you are key in helping every Warwick medical student who you meet to achieve the best they can achieve.

Find out about our WMS Challenging Racism workshops

Awarding gaps exist for other characteristics

You can find resources on the university webpages:

Neurodiversity toolkitLink opens in a new window

The University of Warwick has a Queering University programme

LGBTQUIA terminology glossary

Pronouns: an introductory resource

Trauma informed teaching guidance

BMA Report on sexism amongst medical students

WMS resources on anti-sexism

Activity 6:

1. Find our Inclusivity teaching hub

2. Complete the self-assessment checklist by the University of Hull. This is a comprehensive framework to structure teaching to be as inclusive as possible - you may find it useful to think about one section at a time.

3. Further resources that you can read on our students' experiences of racism:

Student perspectives on barriers to performance for black and minority ethnic graduate-entry medical students: a qualitative study in a West Midlands medical schoolLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
Link oStudent perspectives on barriers to performance for black and minority ethnic graduate-entry medical students: a qualitative study in a West Midlands medical schoolLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

Morrison N, Machado M, Blackburn C

'Where are you really from?’: a qualitative study of racial microaggressions and the impact on medical students in the UK. Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

Morrison N, Zaman T, Webster G, et al.

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9 – Student Support

10 – Inclusive teaching

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