Equality & Diversity

Promoting equality

UCEA takes every opportunity to promote equality and to help employers move forward from just complying with legal requirements to ensuring that the principle of equality of opportunity for all staff underpins all activity within universities and colleges of higher education. Recent work in this area has included negotiating the Framework Agreement on pay modernisation, a key principle of which is equal pay for work of equal value; the publication, through JNCHES and in partnership with the Equality Challenge Unit, of the Race Equality Communication and Consultation Report and Toolkit; and the development of sector-wide approaches to tackling age discrimination and disability discrimination.