Enhancing the student experience Clause Samples
Enhancing the student experience. The university aims to develop an innovative and supportive curriculum with an explicit focus on the provision of a strongly supported learning environment to ensure retention, progression and student success. This will be achieved through: Ensuring that all full-time and part-time programmes of learning have relevant, exciting and intellectually challenging curricula across a wide range of academic and practice- based disciplines Supporting students’ individual needs through a comprehensive system of pastoral care, personal tutoring and study skills support Supporting diverse approaches to teaching and assessment that provide for a variety of learning needs and recognise the diversity of student experiences and backgrounds Delivering appropriate training and guidance for staff Giving students a voice through a variety of formal and informal feedback mechanisms. Key activities to deliver these objectives include: Enhanced induction Personal tutoring Summer University Academic skills support.
Enhancing the student experience. The University has an ongoing commitment to enhancing the student experience, and has made significant investments to date in a variety of projects aimed at achieving this, including making substantive physical improvements to a range of student-facing services and the development of a Library Resource Centre to provide support for student independent learning and study. The investment of additional, variable tuition fee to underpin this commitment will continue, with a focus on improving the student academic experience by reducing staff/student ratios in certain academic areas, supporting e-learning developments, providing additional library resources, and conducting research into the student experience which will be used to inform future investment decisions.