In March 2023, our workforce identified as 89 males (37%) and 149 females (63%).
When dividing our workforce of 238 employees into four equal quartiles, women are overrepresented in all of the lower pay quartiles but underrepresented in the highest pay quartile. This is due to HSU being a small size institution, proud not to outsource traditionally lower paid roles such as receptionists, administrators and catering. These types of roles are predominantly filled by females and evaluated at a lower rate of pay due to the requirements of the role.
The bigger number of males in upper quartile might also be linked to historically Chiropractic being dominated by male students, hence more senior colleagues at HSU also being male. However, due to diversification of subjects offered by HSU this historical issue is being reviewed as new senior employees are joining our workforce.
HSU offer a comprehensive flexible working package, 59% of our female staff formally work flexibly, as do 17% of our male staff. We offer part-time opportunities and term time hours contracts which naturally attract more female workers to join HSU, with less male counterparts seeking flexible working arrangements.
To read more, please download the full report via the link below:
Access and Participation Plans, Fees Summary and Provider impact report
Here you will find our Access and Participation Plan and Fair Access Agreements, which set out our targets and milestones for widening access in higher education by students from disadvantaged groups, and improving the aspirations, success and progression for students in these groups. This includes information about financial support packages, and details of our outreach activities, and targets and milestones for widening participation.
These access agreements have been formally approved by the Office for Students (or the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) prior to September 2019).
The Provider impact report summarises the progress the University College has made against targets, objectives and written commitments set out in our 2019-20 access and participation plan. This document is a summary of information the University College submitted to the OfS.
For students from the UCO School of Osteopathy please see the attached plan which applies to you.
Dan Egelstaff is a First Year student on the MSc Occupational Therapy (pre-registration) course. The degree at Health Sciences University appealed to Dan when he was working as a Learning Disabilities Support Worker during the Covid-19 pandemic.
