The Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education has criticised the government for the partiality of its equality impact assessment and its consequent decision to go ahead with financial support for the creation of new voluntary aided faith schools.
The Women’s Budget Group is urging the UK Government to follow the example of the Scottish Government in analysing economic policies for their equality impact.
Welsh Government plans to bring down illegal levels of air pollution "lack clarity" and are in danger of falling short of legal requirements, says ClientEarth.
Welsh Minsters say they cannot be silent as UK Government’s tax and welfare reforms threaten to plunge 50,000 more Welsh children into poverty and increase levels of deprivation for the most vulnerable families.
It is widely acknowledged among those who still care that academia in the UK is in very serious trouble, says Dr Michael Marten from the University of Stirling. The most infamous embodiment of the current malaise is a mechanism imposed upon universities by successive Westminster governments: a system of ‘research assessment’ driven by an ideology of neo-liberal commodification. Alternative perspectives and mechanisms are badly needed, he says.
The Trades Union Congress has criticised the Prime Minister's plans to scrap the requirement to undertake equality impact assessments before introducing policy changes.
While the direction of ‘impact statements’ is all about what the public is getting for its money, it says nothing about the bigger issues of impact that offend or contest common sense and sensibility and in which universities have always, in the past, taken a leading role. Dr Alison Jasper argues this point with regard to two icons of feminist religious and philosophical scholarship, Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Daly.