Hear my voice - Staff training day

As you have just seen - one of the key findings of the report highlighted the need to celebrate and include the unique cultural heritage of our students within the curriculum.

Please take a moment to share any ideas you have on how this could be achieved and share your response in the box below.

Students were asked to give a general reflection of their experience of staff members' attitudes in acknowledging their racial identity. How do you feel they responded?

• Staff were active in support

• Staff were generally considerate

• Staff were indifferent

• Staff were not considerate

Students were asked if they felt that staff members from diverse backgrounds have a better connection with "Black" students and their experiences - how do you think they responded?

• Strongly agreed

• Agreed

• Staff members backgrounds did not affect understanding

Have you ever attended, or directly supported, any of the cultural activities organised as part of the colleges enrichment programme?

• Yes

• No

• I do not know where to find out about these activities

It has been suggested that it may benefit the effective engagement of our students if a cross-college "off-timetable" period was introduced one day of the week. What are your thoughts?

Do you feel that the subjects taught within your curriculum area offer a diverse perspective, which both acknowledge and support the specific needs of our students?

• Strongly agree

• Agree

• Do not agree

• Unsure

In a poll regarding the processes and outcomes for reporting incidents of racism and discrimination within the college, how do you feel the students felt about voicing a concern?

• Unaware of processes

• Not confident

• Confident

• Very confident

We asked those students polled how engaged they felt the College staff were in supporting their needs - how do you feel they responded?

• Very unsupportive

• Not very supportive

• Supportive

• Very supportive