Sentences with phrase «from ethnic minority backgrounds»

While such racist policies never became official Conservative policy, we had enough such people within our party to ruin our brand with most people from an ethnic minority background.

She added that she was encouraged that the proportion of successful applicants from an ethnic minority background broadly matches that for white applicants and that the number of successful women applicants has remained high.

World music: Chris Ofili, the Turner prize - winning artist, is launching a nationwide search for modern musicians from ethnic minority backgrounds.

BAMEed has been created to raise the status of teaching among communities from ethnic minority backgrounds by encouraging career progression.

The report praised the fact that in the 2010 general election a record 27 MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds had been elected, but found that racial «typecasting» was still prevalent throughout the political system.

«As a result children from ethnic minority backgrounds languish in care for longer than other kids and are denied the opportunities they deserve.

Britain First's confrontational style of campaigning has seen it stage «mosque invasions» and provocative patrols in areas with large numbers of British citizens from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Unconscious bias training is increasingly used by major corporations to help executives overcome the innate prejudices that mean they often overlook promising women and candidates from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Around 20 per cent of girls from ethnic minority backgrounds are not being vaccinated against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) because they feel they don't need to have it, according to a Cancer Research UK survey presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool.

Data also found that texts written by writers from ethnic minority backgrounds had been «marginalised» with some courses only offering five per cent of texts from such writers.

In an area where the majority of pupils come from ethnic minority backgrounds, the school will provide 750 students with the opportunity to excel academically, and gain skills and experiences needed to make informed choices about their future.

Bolt's inspection report, carried out throughout 2017, paints a stark picture of a scheme that is causing real harm to migrants - both documented and undocumented - people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and society at large.

Chris Ofili, the Turner prize - winning artist, is launching a nationwide search for modern musicians from ethnic minority backgrounds.

It's understood that for the first time, those from ethnic minority backgrounds will be able to choose from a range of culturally matched donors.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

From both peoples» names and from their accents, I could tell that many of the people I was telephoning were from an ethnic minority background.

We know a lot more of tomorrow's Tory MPs are likely to be women, quite a few more will be from ethnic minority backgrounds and a lot will be gay... but is that real diversity?

«Local associations in target seats to ensure at least half of those candidates put forward for final selection to be women or from an ethnic minority background.»

More than half of the university's graduate students are from outside the U.K., with students coming from more than 130 countries, and 20 % of its academic staff is from ethnic minority backgrounds.

The Catholic Education Service rejected the suggestion that their schools were socially exclusive: «Catholic schools in England have higher proportions of pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds with 33.5 % of pupils in Catholic primary schools from ethnic minority backgrounds compared with 27.6 % nationally.»

So far, we have compiled the results from 250 pupils aged between 14 and 18 from ethnic minority backgrounds, spread across three schools.