Awarding Gap
This page provides information to support any claims made in the University’s TEF submission around the Awarding Gap and Non-Submissions.
Abbreviations used on this page include:
- GEM = Global Ethnic Majority (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic)
On page 8 of our TEF submission we talk about the initiatives and describe how the awarding gap has closed. The awarding gap was 22.8pp in 2018/19 and has fallen to 16.0pp in 2020/21. The underlying data for this is shown below.
18/19
- GEM Population: 787.0
- GEM Good Degrees: 52.9%
- White Population: 1,354.0
- White Good Degrees: 75.7%
- Difference: 22.8pp
19/20
- GEM Population: 804.0
- GEM Good Degrees: 54.2%
- White Population: 1,200.0
- White Good Degrees: 77.6%
- Difference: 23.4pp
20/21
- GEM Population: 788.0
- GEM Good Degrees: 65.7%
- White Population: 1,218.0
- White Good Degrees: 81.8%
- Difference: 16.0pp
The source data for the above are the HESA DSCore files using the following:
- XPQUAL01= ‘1’, XCLASS = ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’ for population, OR XCLASS = ‘1’, ‘2’ for good degrees, XDOMREG01 = ‘XF’, ‘XG’, ‘XH’, ‘XI’, ‘XK’; XETHNIC01 = ‘21’, ‘22’, ‘29’, ‘31’, ‘32’, ‘33’, ‘34’, ‘39’, ‘40’ for GEM or XETHNIC01 = ‘10’ for White.
On page 18 of our TEF submission we make the following claim:
- Between 2019/20 and 2020/21 non-submissions fell from 26.6% to 15.0%
19/20
- % non-submissions: 26.6%
- Total assessments: 83,330
- Non-submissions: 22,137
20/21
- % non-submissions: 15%
- Total assessments: 88,299
- Non-submissions: 13,212
Data from internal monitoring of assessment submission rates.
On page 18 of our TEF submission we make the following claim:
- Between 2019/20 and 2020/21 … Non-submissions by Black students fell from 33.5% to 22.5
19/20
- % non-submissions: 33.5%
- Total assessments: 20,793
- Non-submissions: 6,974
20/21
- % non-submissions: 22.5%
- Total assessments: 22,468
- Non-submissions: 5,055
Data from internal monitoring of assessment submission rates.
On page 18 of our TEF submission we make the following claim:
Between 2019/20 and 2020/21 … Non-submissions by … white male students from 28.1% to 13.8%.
19/20
- % non-submissions: 28.1%
- Total assessments: 13,937
- Non-submissions: 3,915
20/21
- % non-submissions: 13.8
- Total assessments: 15,477
- Non-submissions:2,134
Data from internal monitoring of assessment submission rates.