Thursday, 21 July 2011

Stonewall: University Fees

Stonewall published their Gay By Degree: University Guide to much fanfare this week.
They've come up with a handy checklist whereby Stonewall can assess a university's "gay-friendliness".
And they've even announced the four most "gay-friendly" universities in the UK; Imperial College, University College London, Wolverhampton and Portsmouth.
Well done.
The Guardian notes;
"The guide assesses 160 universities according to whether they have a policy that protects LGBT students from bullying, whether they have compulsory staff training on LGBT issues and a student LGBT society, whether they offer information on LGBT issues, specialised events, explicit welfare provision, consultation and career advice for LGBT students, whether they have an LGBT staff network, and whether they are members of Stonewall's diversity champion's programme, a network of organisations that work together, and with Stonewall, to ensure a working environment where everyone can be themselves."
The Guardian forgets to mention the main criterion for joining Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme - giving Stonewall £2,000 a year.
Or to put this as a figure students may more readily understand; all the above universities have given Stonewall a bung that's roughly the equivalent of one term's tuition fees.
All else is irrelevant.
Which is how - quite inexplicably - the LGBT-deporting homo-hating Home Office could be named Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index Employer Of The Year 2011.

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