UCU: LGBT+ Inclusion in Education

Motion

Motion text: Congress believes in the value of education for the whole person, realising ambitions and developing critical thinking.
Within FE this should take the form of genuine consultation with LGBT+ staff and students to develop a relevant curriculum as part of both the tutorial and vocational offers.
Within HE this should include support for courses that promote visibility and inclusion of LGBT+ lives.
Systems used to measure the success of educational programmes inhibit teachers’ and lecturers’ ability to raise and discuss equality issues in the classroom.
It is very difficult to genuinely Stretch and Challenge students when locked into the demands of the OFSTED cycle and the vocational syllabus in FE, and the Teaching Excellence Framework and National Student Survey in HE.
Congress supports and calls for more:
a. approaches across all curricula that challenge normative assumptions about sexuality and gender;
b. further exploration of LGBT+ voices, lives and issues across post-school education.