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The new
31%

73.9%

of BME teachers
say they have
experienced
discrimination in
the workplace

The available data
suggests just one
in 200 teachers
is disabled

13%

of state-school teachers
in England are from a
BME (black and minority
ethnicity) background,
compared with 27% of
pupils. Another 68,000
BME teachers would
be needed to reflect
students' ethnic makeup

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93.1%

0.5%

White British people
make up 93.1% of
headteachers and
90.4% of deputy/
assistant heads in
schools in England

64%

of secondary classroom
teachers are female,
but only 38% of head
teachers are (up from
25% in 2001)

"It is essential that greater
efforts are taken by
headteachers, governors and
school leadership to ensure
they are complying with their
Public Sector Equality Duty
and monitoring the equality
characteristics of their staff"
Teachers' union NASUWT

COMPILED BY CHRIS MILLER IMAGES SHUTTERSTOCK SOURCES: DEPARTMENT FOR
EDUCATION, NASUWT, BBC NEWS, NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY, THE GUARDIAN

of all school teachers in England
are women. They also account for
84.6% of nursery/primary teachers



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