This section looks at equality and discrimination in education from the perspective of education providers. It looks at who counts as an education provider, their areas of responsibility, what the law says and summarises what education providers can do to promote equality of opportunity and tackle discrimination.
On this site, the term ‘education providers’ means not only schools, colleges and universities but also training and work-based learning providers. The laws set out here also apply to local authority education departments (or education authorities in Scotland).
Although this section does cover some areas of pupils’ and students’ rights in education when looking at areas of responsibility for education providers, for more information on this area go to Rights in different settings > learning and training.