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Enhancing the Student Experience: Top 10 Education for Exeter

Enhancing the Student Experience: Top 10 Education for Exeter. Janice Kay, Ashley Petrons, Michele Shoebridge, Keith Zimmerman. Exeter Student Experience. Students enjoy their experience at Exeter 11th in NSS 2006, 4th in NSS 2007 Top quality teaching and academic experience

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Enhancing the Student Experience: Top 10 Education for Exeter

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  1. Enhancing the Student Experience: Top 10 Education for Exeter Janice Kay, Ashley Petrons, Michele Shoebridge, Keith Zimmerman

  2. Exeter Student Experience • Students enjoy their experience at Exeter • 11th in NSS 2006, 4th in NSS 2007 • Top quality teaching and academic experience • High level of engagement in extra-curricula: • Volunteering and CA • Sport • Music, Arts & Culture • Guild Societies • Participation (e.g. in Guild Elections) • A strong sense of community: The ‘Exeter Bubble’

  3. Exeter Student Experience • We excel in some things • NSS • Completion Rates • % ‘Good’ Degrees • Student Engagement & Representation (e.g. SSLCs, Committees, Faculty Boards, UGLG) • But not in others • Graduate Prospects • Entry Standards • International Population • SSR

  4. Strategy for Education and Education Strategy: Challenges and Opportunities • Sharpen current Education Strategy: • Immediate (e.g. Entry Standards & Graduate Prospects) • Longer Term • Sustain and develop what we’re good at • Improve and develop what we’re less good at: • “long hard grind of improvement” • Illustrate our Strategy for Education • A Joined Up Student Journey

  5. Marketing, Recruitment & Admissions • UK/SW Recruitment Strategy • Professionalised Admissions Service • City/Regional (shortlisted for THES award) • Bursaries & Scholarships • Recruitment Literature (Web, Prospectus, Fact Files) • Decliners’ Survey • Entry Standards & Graduate Prospects • Programme Portfolio Review & Development • International & INTO

  6. Raising UG Entry Standards • Approaching 400 tariff points (3 A+ at AL) • Admissions Policies • Raise entry grades and ranges where possible • IB • Scholarships (e.g. Jubilee Science, VC Excellence) • Quality Control at Confirmation and Clearing • Programme Portfolio Development: • BMBS, Zoology • Quota • League Table Position (Proxy for Quality)

  7. Academic Experience • Top Quality Teaching and Learning • Research-Led, Research-Like • Research-Intensive Staff + Engaged Students = Research-Led, Active Learners • Top Quality Learning Resources and Support • Staff Development (e.g. PCAP) • Enhanced Educational Enhancement Unit (£123k in new staff for 07/08)

  8. Exeter Student Experience:Monitoring and Review • Academic Standards and Infrastructure • Student Feedback (e.g. SSLC) • Student Evaluation (15+ Institutional Surveys!) • NSS • Penultimate Year • First Year • PGT • PGR • i-Graduate • Quantitative & Qualitative Feedback (cross campuses)

  9. NSS: Management • Comprehensive Data Analyses • By Category, By Question, By ‘Subject’ • Top 20 Competitors, Subject Rankings • Comparative (2007 v 2006; NSS v PYS) • Senior Management Group (& Away Day) • School Planning Groups • School/Subject Teaching Committees • Student/Staff Liaison Committees • Information Sharing and Monitoring • Within School and by Senior Management

  10. Engagement in Extra-Curricula • Engagement and Community • Volunteering and CA • Sport • Guild Societies • Arts & Culture • Representation • Links with CSR • Take to Another Level (e.g. VC Excellence Scholarships, EXCEL@, VC Teaching Excellence Awards)

  11. Student Support • Student & Academic Services • (new Heads of Educational Enhancement and Student Experience) • Career & Employment Service (£110k recurrent) • Pastoral Support (e.g. Disability and Mental Health) • Review of Personal Tutorial System • New ePDP System • Needs to be joined up with extra-curricula • Employability • EXCEL@

  12. Employment & Post Exeter • Further Study (stable at 30%, increase % at Exeter) • Graduate Level Employment (59% to 68.5% in 3 years) • Increased C&E Advisors • Involved Schools more, started earlier (Year 1 & earlier) • More Application & Interview Training • Step Change Needed • Increase work placements & internships • Increase vocational programmes • Influence graduate recruiters • Change performance indicator! • After-Care Service & Role of Alumni

  13. Strategic Actions: Immediate • Strong Management of NSS and other surveys • Roadshows (Development of Education Strategy) • Addressing immediate challenges (e.g. entry standards, graduate prospects) • Students as Engaged, ‘Change Agents’ • Additional investment (300k p.a.)

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