Medical Teaching and Learning: Ethnic Diversity Debate
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Baroness Falkner of Margravine
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Medical Teaching and Learning: Ethnic Diversity
Baroness Falkner of Margravine Excerpts(3 years, 9 months ago)
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I am not satisfied; the statistics are not good enough. Twenty-nine per cent of BAME staff experienced harassment. That is not good enough; we must work harder.
Baroness Falkner of Margravine (Non-Afl) [V]
Perhaps I might take the Minister upstream a little to the choices made by different communities about entering medical school. What work is being done at 15 and 16 year-old level in schools? Has his department had any conversations with Ofsted about the career choices that kids from diverse communities are making? Many realise that they want to go into medicine when it is too late and they have missed the appropriate A-level subjects so to do.