Progression and success Sample Clauses

Progression and success. Our student community includes a substantial proportion of students from under-represented groups and with a wide range of academic backgrounds. We recognise the importance of supporting our students from their pre-arrival engagement with the University through to achieving graduate-level employability outcomes. We seek to ensure we can maintain and continually enhance the support we offer to these and other students and our plans to support progression and student success are set out and targeted to ensure we support our students in the most effective way. We monitor and analyse students’ progress and academic outcomes at all levels and we consider recommendations and take action where appropriate. The creation of a new student life directorate in 2016 brings together many of the services and teams which provide support to our students during their time at the University. It currently incorporates student support, the employability and careers centre, and the student engagement team. The directorate will ensure that support services and activities are delivered in a strategic and coherent manner with a focus on engaging with students throughout the student lifecycle from enrolment through to graduation. The directorate also has a responsibility to increase awareness and accessibility of support services by all students. As part of our commitment to making services more accessible and easy-to-use for students, we opened the new Silberrad Student Centre on our Colchester campus in August 2015. This has brought together many support services in a single location to offer integrated information, advice, guidance and other support. We have outlined below how we intend to support students throughout their time in the University and also to continue to support those students as graduates in the period after graduation, where they require such support. Where support is available to all students, we include a proportion of the expenditure representative of the proportion of students from under-represented groups within our student community. We target students from under-represented groups and monitor engagement with this activity to ensure those students benefit from our wider support.