{"id":14,"date":"2019-07-17T19:06:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2019-07-18T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T08:21:53","slug":"equality-and-diversity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/generalinformation\/equality-and-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality and Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"span8 content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sohsc.tees.ac.uk\/sites\/practicesupport\/assets\/Image\/practicesupport\/Img040967.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Teesside University is committed to equality of opportunity within a diverse learning and working environment. In accordance with our Mission Statement we will introduce policies and practices that support a working and learning environment free from unfair or unlawful discrimination for all our staff, students and associates.<\/p>\n<p>We believe individuals should be enabled to achieve their full potential in their role and career progression. Within the <a title=\"University of Teesside Equal Opportunities\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tees.ac.uk\/depts\/hr\/equalopportunities.cfm\">University<\/a> this means providing development opportunities and removing barriers. The University community values:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mutual respect and sensitivity<\/li>\n<li>equality of access to the organisation, with equality of esteem and equality of opportunity within the organisation<\/li>\n<li>continuous improvement of individuals stemming from a culture of ongoing review, development and enhancement<\/li>\n<li>satisfaction of individual needs via supportive, flexible working and learning environments<\/li>\n<li>encouraging diversity of views, perspectives, values and issues, but opposing and eradicating prejudice, unfair barriers and discrimination<\/li>\n<li>transparency, equity, responsiveness and accuracy of procedure and process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The University has produced a number of <a title=\"Equality and Diversity Documents\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tees.ac.uk\/docs\/index.cfm?folder=Equality%20and%20Diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">documents<\/a> to support equality and diversity in education.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teesside University is committed to equality of opportunity within a diverse learning and working environment. In accordance with our Mission Statement we will introduce policies and practices that support a working and learning environment free from unfair or unlawful discrimination for all our staff, students and associates. We believe individuals should be enabled to achieve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/generalinformation\/equality-and-diversity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Equality and Diversity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23211,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/ssshlpracticesupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}