EQUITY & DIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT – 2007

Section 2.4: Educational Qualifications

Sixty-seven per cent of staff were recorded as having a post-secondary or tertiary qualification for this reporting period, the same as last year. Overall, 54 per cent of staff now hold a Bachelor Degree or higher, while 19 per cent hold a post-graduate qualification.

There is no significant difference in the  percentage of women when compared with men holding Certificate/Diploma and Bachelor qualifications. However, a significant gap still exists in post graduate qualifications where only 15 per cent of women compared with 23 per cent of men hold post graduate qualifications – but this gap is narrowing. The time-series analysis of this data reveals that while the number of men holding post-graduate qualifications has remained static in the past five years, the number of women with post-graduate qualifications has increased significantly over the same period.