Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility

Only one record in the partnership treats equity as a design requirement rather than as a concern to be noted. Assessment approaches are developed so as to remain robust to the use of AI while providing differentiated support for diverse needs, and staff training covers responsible use, ethics and inclusivity together.

The limited population of this cell should be read against what respondents report. Students in every round identify unequal access, the cost of premium tools and the absence of digital skills as barriers, and one institution reports extending access to a commercial model to all staff. That measure is recorded under infrastructure because that is how the source describes it, although it also constitutes the clearest equity intervention in the material.

The evidence on training points in the same direction. Students report less access to formal provision than staff and rely instead on peer collaboration and online resources, and the second round found no significant change in this difference over time. An inequality that is measured in the survey data but addressed by only one recorded instrument is a finding in its own right.