Discussion and Conclusion: How Organisational Commitments to Inclusion Work
摘要
This chapter compiles the book’s arguments and key findings. I show how the two-way function of organisational commitments to inclusion (OCIs) provides a fruitful avenue for questioning, problematising and operationalising the ‘talk’ and the ‘walk’ of inclusion in universities. Towards the end of the chapter, I illustrate how a policy-oriented toolkit can be developed to assess OCIs based on the extent to which they benefit the demographic groups they target (Function 1), as opposed to benefiting universities as adapting institutions (Function 2). A case is being made for the importance of an intersectional approach that takes into account recognitional inequalities across socio-economic layers, and the role of the government in regulating and steering the pursuit of inclusion at the sector level, rather than leaving it to the organisational capacity of individual universities.