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We would be grateful if you would spend 15 minutes completing this questionnaire online
at www.centreforexcellence.org.uk/managers or in hard copy. It will be received in
complete confidence. No part of your response will be used in any way that will enable
your comments to be attributed to you.
The Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) is working to support leaders in the further
education sector plan for and manage its staffing succession crisis. Over the coming 5
to10 years many more staff will be leaving the sector than are currently likely to join it.
This questionnaire is part of a policy research project designed to determine how the FE
sector can develop one strand of a response to the succession crisis by maximising the
recruitment and retention of black and minority ethnic (BME) staff. To do this we need to
understand the views and experiences of managers involved in staff appointments. The
project is using companion questionnaires with college HR directors and BME college
staff and prospective BME college staff. Your completion of this questionnaire will be
valued and will lead to changes in policy and practice.
Emma Goreeph
The Centre for Excellence in Leadership
4th Floor
47 Mark Lane
London
EC3R 7QQ
To ensure response is part of the research please complete and the return the
questionnaire by 30 January 2008.
Thank you
Your response is greatly valued
Section 1: Personal profile
1. Please indicate to which age group you belong: (Please tick one box)
Under 25 45 to 54
25 to 34 55 to 59
35 to 44 60 plus
3. Disability: Do you consider yourself to have a disability? (Please tick one box)
Yes No
4. Ethnic background: Please choose one section from (A) to (E) and then tick the
appropriate box to indicate your ethnic background. (Please tick one box)
A White B Mixed
British White and Black Caribbean
Irish White and Black African
Any other white background, White and Asian
please specify: Any other mixed background, please
specify:
7. How long have you been employed at your college? (Please tick one box)
8. How long have you worked in the FE sector? (Please tick one box)
14. What kind of organisation did you work for before coming to this college? (Please tick all
that apply)
15. Do you have any of the following qualifications? (Please tick all that apply)
17. Has you college provided equalities training for senior staff and those responsible for
recruitment and selection? (tick all that apply)
18. Did this training include a focus on mainstreaming equality in the following? (Tick all that
apply)
19. Have you received training in equalities in relation to employing and managing staff?
Yes No
19a. If Yes – do you apply it to your involvement with the employment process?
Yes No
19b. If you answered Yes to question 19, at which stage do you apply it:
20. Do you consider addressing the staffing succession crisis in further education?
High priority Not a priority for you
Medium priority Not a priority for the sector
Low priority
21. Do you think generally of BME staff as part of a potential solution to the succession
crisis?
Yes No
22. Do you take the need to increase the number of BME staff in FE into consideration
when making appointments?
Yes No
22b.If Yes, how do you do this? (Please tick all that apply)
24. Do you take steps to equip and support BME staff to compete effectively for
management positions in the college?
Yes No
25. If management positions are advertised, does your college seek opportunities to equip
BME staff to compete effectively for these positions?
Yes No
26. Do you think it is necessary to take positive action to help BME staff to compete better
for management positions?
Yes No
27. Do you feel / would you feel, comfortable and confident making the case for positive
action in favour of BME colleagues to your staff?
Yes No
27a. If No, is this because there is a view in the college that … (please tick all that apply)
27b. What would help you become comfortable and confident? (Please say)
28. Are you aware that there is a 100% subsidy for BME staff on all CEL programmes?
Yes No
29. Have you authorised any of your BME staff to attend CEL’s First steps to leadership
programme?
Yes No Not applicable
29b. If Yes, did their attendance lead to: (please tick all that apply)
30. Do you feel confident in managing staff of a different ethnicity from yourself?
Yes No
31. Do you think that BME staff have the same access to promotion as their white peers?
Yes No
31a. If No, what do you think are the main barriers to their promotion?
31b. If No, what do you consider the contribution you can best make to overcoming
barriers to BME progression?
32. Looking at the sector as a whole, what two measures do you think would be most
effective in removing any barriers to BME progression and leadership?
Please use the space below to provide any further comments or views relating to issues
raised by this questionnaire.
Would you be willing to take part in an in-depth one-to-one interview or follow up focus
group discussion?
If you answered Yes to the previous question, please supply your details below if you are
comfortable to do so.
Name Organisation
Job title Address
Telephone
Email
If you prefer not to identify yourself here, please contact the project administrator,
Suzanne King, on email suzannekingemail@googlemail.com