Equality Processes in Higher Education: A Case Study

The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact of the politics and perceptions relating to equality on compliance with legislative requirements as reflected through the equality processes within a case study institution. Such an analysis could have wider implications on how equality and compliance with the law is dealt with in other Higher Education Institutions (HEI).

The main methodological tools used were Document Analysis and Content Analysis. The aim of analysing the documentation was to provide both an historical and developmental overview of equality processes and outcomes at the case study institution to consider both the gap between the law and practice as well as the impact of the law limitations.