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Business News Wales
5 days ago
- Business
- Business News Wales
Cardiff and Vale College Retains Prestigious Leaders in Diversity Gold Status
Cardiff and Vale College has been re-accredited for the prestigious Leaders in Diversity gold status. The award reflects the work it does to promote Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity and Engagement (FREDIE) within the communities it serves. The re-accreditation report by the National Centre for Diversity identified the college's work undertaken to advance inclusivity reaching beyond its walls, influencing work across Wales and beyond. It noted that this work has achieved national recognition, including by the Association of Colleges (AoC) in relation to CAVC's work on Race Equality and support in this area for the Further Education sector. It concluded that FREDIE is clearly embedded into the college across both staff and learner provision, and in outreach work. The inspection report also found that the college's positive influence spans not just further education, but with Higher Education and ongoing partnership work with the Welsh Government. It added that the college has extensive community and business links and uses its expertise and knowledge to 'influence and cascade across the wider landscape'. Last year the college moved from third to second place in the Leaders in Diversity Top 100 Inclusive Employers Index. CAVC represents one of the most vibrant and diverse communities in Wales. It is also the largest provider of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course in Wales, making it well placed to reach out to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities across the Capital Region and beyond. CAVC Group Chief Executive Mike James is Chair of the Colleges Wales Equality and Diversity Group and in 2022 the college became the first college in Wales to become affiliated with the Black Leadership Group. In 2022 CAVC also won an AoC UK-wide Beacon Award for its innovative work to embrace equality and inclusion, and a WorldSkills UK Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador Award. ESOL Cancer Awareness, a partnership between CAVC and Velindre Cancer Centre, was the UK's first Health and Cancer Awareness resource for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities when it launched in 2018. More recently, CAVC has been working with the Welsh Government, leading on a project to develop of anti-racist curriculum modules in the FE sector. The curriculum is in the form of a metaverse, providing an accessible and immersive learning experience developed and produced in collaboration with minority ethnic experts from schools, colleges, universities and third parties. Cardiff and Vale College Principal Sharon James-Evans said: 'We are absolutely delighted to retained National Centre for Diversity's prestigious gold status. 'As the college that serves one of the most diverse and vibrant communities in Wales, we are hugely proud of this result. It means a lot to us because we believe ourselves to be at the heart of the communities we serve and that all students and college colleagues are part of the CAVC Community. 'This is a testament to the people right across the college who work so hard to ensure that CAVC takes an ell-encompassing approach to managing equality, diversion and inclusion across all we do and I'd like to thank them all for that.'
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Boston Celtics jersey history No. 13 - Mike James (2003-04)
The Boston Celtics have had players suiting up in a total of 68 different jersey numbers (and have three others not part of any numerical series) since their founding at the dawn of the Basketball Association of America (BAA -- the league that would become today's NBA), worn by well over 500 players in the course of Celtics history. To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Celtics Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. With 25 of those jerseys now retired to honor some of the greatest Celtics to wear those jerseys, there is a lot of history to cover. And for today's article, we will continue with the 12th of 25 people to wear the No. 13 jersey, Boston guard alum Mike James. After ending his college career at Duquesne, James would go unselected in the 1998 NBA draft, instead playing in other domestic leagues and abroad before signing with the Miami Heat in 2001. James would next sign with Boston in 2003, his stay with the team spanning one season that ended when he was dealt to the Detroit Pistons in 2004. During his time suiting up for the Celtics, James wore only jersey No. 13 and put up 10.7 points, 3.2 rebounds, 4.4 assists, and 1.2 steals per game. Listen to the "Celtics Lab" podcast on: Apple Podcasts: Spotify: This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: Celtics jersey history No. 13 - Mike James (2003-04)
