Marshall's online-training

New online training package launched to enhance and promote excellence and diversity

• Do you think the University should ensure it attracts and retains the best staff and students regardless of race, gender, disability or any other difference?
• Do you know the difference between positive action and discrimination?
• Are you open to being challenged in a non-threatening way?

These are just some of the issues raised in a new online equalities and diversity training package aimed at all staff.

Mark Humphriss, Chair of the Equalities & Diversity Committee, said: “We recognise that most people do not have time to do longer scheduled equalities and diversity courses.

“So the University has been working for some months now with Marshall ACM to devise ‘Diversity in the workplace’, an online module written in an accessible and engaging form.

“It is suitable for academic and non-academic staff, and is already being marketed to other universities as a more appropriate resource than many of the dry and legalistic packages that are currently available.”

Staff who complete the online course successfully will be able to record this as evidence of professional development recommended by the University in their Performance Review. The package creates a certificate of completion at the end which can be printed out and retained. 

Please note: The University will not be tracking individual scores to any part of the module.

The University is committed through its Statement of Equality Objectives to ensure that as many staff as possible (and any students who wish) take this new module. Some universities have actually made it compulsory.

You can access the course online. When you first log in you will be asked to register as a new user. The course itself only takes about 60 minutes to complete.

We would like to remind you that you should create a different password to your University of Bath login because an external organisation will have access to the passwords you use in this programme. We need to guarantee the safety of passwords and advise you to change the password for this external application.

If you have registered, and then tried to register again you will not be able to proceed. Instead you should login and click on the forgotten password link and a password will be emailed to you within 15 minutes. If you do not receive a password please check your spam email box.

The process for returning to the online package when you need to interrupt your session is as simple as clicking on the bookmark and then exiting the programme.  The next time you enter the course you will have the option to start off from this place in the module.

If you have reset your password and cannot remember it, you can contact equalsdiv@bath.ac.uk at the university and we will be able to reset it for you.

For those involved or interested in equality impact assessment an additional module is available at the same link.

Mark Humphriss added: “I strongly commend this new resource, which should help us all to value, enhance and promote excellence and diversity within the University.”