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Teaching & Learning Seminar - Parama Chaudhury (UCL) The BME attainment gap - sources and implications for the (academic) pipeline

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Location: S2.79

 

About the talk: At many leading UK universities, students from a BME background currently lag behind their white counterparts in academic attainment both in terms of average marks as well as the probability of obtaining a “good” degree (II.1 or above). In this presentation, I will discuss the details behind this finding, including the variation of this gap across faculties and programmes, gender, specific ethnic background, and other individual characteristics. Based on these findings, I will discuss potential implications for policy and outline some of the measures developed within UCL's BME attainment gap project and the initial effects of these policies.

 

About the speaker: Parama is a Principal Teaching Fellow at UCL and Founding Director at Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics(CTaLE). She has also been recently appointed as BME Attainment Lead for the Social and Historical Sciences Faculty at UCL. Her research interests are in labour economics, specifically inequality and technological change. Before joining UCL, she taught at the University of Oxford, Dartmouth College and Yale University.

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