Equality analysis that matches your academic standards
Universities carry the full equality duty across student and staff policies alike. EqualityIQ produces cited, evidence-grounded assessments your governance committees — and your academics — can respect.
The challenge
A wide register, and a community trained to interrogate evidence
Higher education institutions are listed public authorities, and the duty spans an unusually wide register: admissions, accommodation, assessment policy, harassment and misconduct procedures, redundancy and workload frameworks. Scrutiny comes from every direction — students' unions, UCU, the OfS, and a campus community professionally trained to interrogate weak evidence. Assertion-based EIAs don't survive contact with a senate committee.
What changes
Built for the way universities actually work
Citation-first analysis
Every claim tied to a named source, with a documented standard for what counts as sufficient evidence — the evidential discipline an academic community expects, applied to your own governance.
Students and staff, both covered
One workflow for the student-facing register and the employment register, with the relevant evidence for each.
Governance-ready output
Structured assessments and a live register view for council, senate and committee papers — with actions tracked through to completion.
The real problem
Beyond the tick-box
Everyone in the public sector knows the failure mode: an equality impact assessment written after the decision, from a template, under deadline pressure — completed, filed, and never used. That's rarely a failure of the people writing them. It's that thorough analysis has always been expensive enough to ration, so it goes to the highest-profile decisions and everything else gets what's left. The duty asks for due regard, not paperwork — and when the evidence arrives with the first draft, on every assessment, genuine engagement becomes the realistic path rather than the exceptional one.
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What your assessments draw on
- Higher education and student demographic evidence, built into your evidence base during onboarding
- Local area data for your campus communities
- A curated evidence base of approved organisations, matched to your sector and cited by characteristic
- Your own student and staff EDI data, added as private evidence
Questions
Common questions from universities
See it on one of your policies
We'll run EqualityIQ on a live policy from your register — no commitment, no setup required.
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