Not My College ?

The last government’s Inclusion at Work panel, convened by Kemi Badenoch in 2023, unveiled its report into UK employers’ Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEI) practices in 2024. Composed of private and public-sector experts and advised by a Harvard professor, the panel noted that 10,000 DEI jobs in the public sector are estimated to cost the British taxpayer £557 million per year. According to the report, many DEI  initiatives have little evidence behind them, are often ‘polarising’ and in some cases ‘unlawful.’  As Badenoch put it, concepts like ‘unconscious bias’ and ‘white privilege’ regularly employed in diversity training, are ‘bunkum’ . The report joins existing research on diversity training in finding that by calling attention to differences and casting whites as oppressors and blacks as oppressed, such initiatives often increase racial tension. And few will many be surprised to learn that many of these initiatives are often little more than virtue-signalling. Accord...

No, I was imagining it, sadly. After years ... nae decades ... of minimal communication, obfuscation and opacity, the RCVS appeared to have turned over a new leaf.  Two of their recent newsletters were generally more informative than before.  Ditto the plans to actually invite the membership to participate in consultative meetings. Had they ditched the habits of a lifetime, were they actually listening to the real (practicing) profession for once - alas not. Their  'consultation'   - 'An Introduction to Good Governance' is accompanied by pages of one-sided propaganda and a tone deaf video by the outgoing president  here in which we're told that we must move to an appointed system because it is the norm. If this is the norm count me out -  College thinks 'Dysfunctional' GMC is a good model to adopt. No thanks. If you want to read more posts, click on the arrow 🠈 on the top left of the page or on the 'MORE POSTS' button at the bottom.