{"id":6220,"date":"2018-10-16T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/lead\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2018-10-16T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:25:34","slug":"the-bme-attainment-gap-what-do-we-know-about-it-and-what-can-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/2018\/10\/16\/the-bme-attainment-gap-what-do-we-know-about-it-and-what-can-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The BME attainment gap &#8211; what do we know about it and what can we do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/lead\/files\/2018\/10\/Jacqueline-Stevenson-BME.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6221\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/2018\/10\/16\/the-bme-attainment-gap-what-do-we-know-about-it-and-what-can-we-do\/jacqueline-stevenson-bme\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/10\/Jacqueline-Stevenson-BME.png?fit=1041%2C756&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1041,756\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jacqueline Stevenson BME\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/10\/Jacqueline-Stevenson-BME.png?fit=1024%2C744&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6221 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/lead\/files\/2018\/10\/Jacqueline-Stevenson-BME-1024x744.png?resize=700%2C509&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/10\/Jacqueline-Stevenson-BME.png?resize=1024%2C744&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/10\/Jacqueline-Stevenson-BME.png?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/10\/Jacqueline-Stevenson-BME.png?resize=768%2C558&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/10\/Jacqueline-Stevenson-BME.png?w=1041&amp;ssl=1 1041w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Professor Jacqueline Stevenson<\/strong><\/span> presented her paper at the LTA Conference, Wednesday 12th July 2018.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\">So what we do know?<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ethnic differences in academic attainment are widespread and have persisted for many years<\/li>\n<li>They are only partly explained by ethnic differences in entry qualifications<\/li>\n<li>They vary from one institution to another and from one subject area to another<\/li>\n<li>This suggests that they result in part from teaching and assessment practices in different institutions and subjects<\/li>\n<li>BUT staff continue to blame students for their deficits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/lead\/files\/2018\/08\/Jacqueline-Stevenson-LTA-Addressing-the-BME-attainment-gap.pptx\">Jacqueline&#8217;s presentation<\/a> for further information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Professor Jacqueline Stevenson presented her paper at the LTA Conference, Wednesday 12th July 2018. So what we do know? Ethnic differences in academic attainment are widespread and have persisted for many years They are only partly explained by ethnic differences in entry qualifications They vary from one institution to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1333,"featured_media":6221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83,198,209],"tags":[159,54,199,160],"class_list":["post-6220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inclusivepractice","category-lta-conference-2018","category-student-attainment","tag-bme","tag-inclusive-practice","tag-shult18","tag-student-attainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/10\/Jacqueline-Stevenson-BME.png?fit=1041%2C756&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ctLQ-1Ck","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}