What we do at the Noon Centre for Equality and Diversity for Business
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Data from the Labour Force Survey demonstrates that employment rates vary significantly by ethnicity and gender.
- Women in general, regardless of their ethnicity are less likely than men to be in gainful employment.
- Self-employed women across all ethnic groups are also generally under-represented.
- Africans, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are disproportionately under-represented in terms of presence in top hierarchies of both business and public-sector organisations.
- Generally, ethnic minority women’s business start-ups are prone to early failure crises.
- Ethnic minorities are disproportionately concentrated in low-status and low-paying occupations and in marginal industries.
Set against this background, and working closely with ethnic minority students and populations, the Noon Centre co-creates, test and validates innovative strategies to accelerate business start-ups among the target populations, and offers intervention support to enhance the growth and sustainability of the start-ups.
We offer:
- Brokerage support, such as structured business outreach
- Student–employee matching in the form of internships
- Mentoring programmes
- Individualisation of advisory support through, for example, hand-holding intervention at entry points in business
- Partnership working
- Signposting and practical life-skills
We are always developing new, practical support toolkits and programmes that can enhance students’ skills and extend labour market opportunities to disadvantaged groups.
The overarching aim of the Centre is to help focus a sensitive dialogue with business. This is achieved by enhancing business–university collaborations and building bridges between disadvantaged groups and the competitive job-market. The Centre works with businesses, and encourages partnerships on a regular basis. If you would like to get involved with us, please see the ‘contact us’ page to get in touch. We would love to hear from you.
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Education Services
Management professionals from Germany study the Royal Docks Business School MBA via our agreement with the University of Applied Sciences in Köln. Students have regular classes at the University in Köln, and have periods of intensive study at Docklands campus.
