“Perhaps the scales are tipping”: women in UK HE senior leadership – a personal perspective
“I firmly believe that if I had stayed in India, I would not have achieved what I have managed to here in the UK”
Sonal Minocha, pro-vice chancellor for global engagement at Bournemouth University, writes about her experience of being a woman in a senior leadership position, and how her experience might be different if she’d stayed in India.
Women hold just one fifth of senior leadership roles in higher education (@hefce) https://t.co/4H4a24gzaR
— Phil Baty (@Phil_Baty) April 12, 2016
This tweet, the data it highlights, and the very persuasively presented blog, together made me think – perhaps consciously for the first time – of how privileged I am to be a product of UK Higher Education. My career, both as a student and a staff member, has thankfully defied the allegations and statistics that this article summarises.
So let me give you my personal context – I am Indian by origin – born and brought up in Delhi, and my first time away from India was as an international student to Newcastle in 2001. I am (or at least was then) very much a migrant, a foreigner, an ethnic minority!
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