Closing the gaps: a faculty-based approach to reducing awarding gaps

Steve Briggs
,
Julie Brunton
,
Charles Birtwisle
,
John Reynolds
,
Karen Robins
,
Roma-Joy Thomas

Learning Teaching and Libraries
,
Deans Office - Technologies Education and Social Sciences
,
Deans Office - Health Community and Life Sciences
,
Institute for Health and Wellbeing Research (IHWR)
,
Business & Management Research Institute (BMRI)
,
Deans Office - Business School

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Abstract

The University of Bedfordshire implemented a series of ‘Closing the Gaps’ academic staff development events to explore how degree awarding gaps manifest at the subject and course level and identify best practice to implement in course enhancement planning. These events built on positive momentum, which has seen a reduction in the ethnicity awarding gap of 10 percentage points across two years (OfS access and participation dataset, published October 2025).

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Original language

English

Publication milestones

Published - 20/05/2026

Publication status

Published - 20/05/2026

Publisher

Advance HE, United Kingdom

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