Tag: Black

Channel 4 launches its Black, Asian & minority ethnic-led Indie accelerator

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 has launched its BAME-led Indie Accelerator – an innovative new approach to working with more production companies where the main shareholders, the leading decision makers or the creative leaders comprise those from a Black, Asian and minority ethnic background. In a two-year partnership with The TV Collective – an organisation founded by Simone Pennant MBE, which aims to connect BAME workers to paid opportunities in the media industry – Channel 4 will run this initiative twice over the next two years as part of a long-term strategic plan to…

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Stanley Black & Decker and Discovery Education Launch New “Concept and Create” Virtual Field Trip Nationwide to Empower 21st Century Makers and Doers

Stuart Mitchell

Stanley Black & Decker, the world’s largest tools and storage company and leader in engineered fastening and security, and Discovery Education, the leading provider of standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content and professional learning for K-12 classrooms, have announced Innovation Generation: Making an Impact’s inaugural Concept and Create Virtual Field Trip. Nationwide, the digitally immersive experience is scheduled to premiere on Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. ET from Stanley Black & Decker’s Makerspace based in Towson, Md. The Concept and Create Virtual Field Trip experience will transport students across…

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Mayor of London vows to tackle ‘injustice’ of pay inequality

Stuart Mitchell

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has stepped up his fight against pay inequality in the capital by publishing for the first time ever comprehensive data on the pay gap affecting Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees for all organisations in the Greater London Authority (GLA) Group, making it among the first employers in the UK to do so. Alongside this data, Sadiq has today revealed how he plans to tackle the ethnic pay gap across the organisations under his control – and called on other businesses and public…

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