Impact assessment

Postgraduate doctoral loans: equality analysis

Analysis of the potential impact of the proposed postgraduate doctoral loan scheme on specific protected groups.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 8 March 2017

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Postgraduate doctoral loans: equality assessment

Ref: DFE-00085-2017

PDF, 351 KB, 18 pages

Details

An assessment of the effect that the proposed postgraduate doctoral loan scheme to support PhD students would have on groups with relevant protected characteristics.

The relevant protected characteristics, identified in the Equality Act 2010, include:

• disability
• gender reassignment
• pregnancy and maternity
• race
• religion or belief
• sex and sexual orientation

Published 8 March 2017