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<p>At the launch of the Race Disparity Audit in October 2017, the government committed
to “explain or change” the ethnic disparities on the audit’s Ethnicity facts and figures
website.</p><p>Since October 2017 the government has taken action, including on tackling
disparities in access to and participation in higher education (HE) for ethnic minority
students.</p><p>The audit’s ethnicity facts and figures website has been continually
updated and extended to allow the public to see if ethnic disparities are improving
or not, across over 160 important areas of public life. This has included the publication
of data on undergraduate degree results and entrants at different HE providers with
high, medium and low entry tariffs.</p><p>On February 1, the government announced
action to tackle disparities in access to, and successful participation in, HE for
ethnic minority students; and disparities in recruitment and progression for ethnic
minority academics. This included plans to work with league table compilers on how
they might consider performance on tackling inequalities between ethnic groups in
university rankings, promoting the new transparency condition, and encouraging HE
providers to make use of tools such as the Race at Work charter and the Race Equality
Charter in their efforts to address inequality.</p>
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