Category Archives: Student Success

NSS Student Success stories

Posted on November 27, 2018 by amckie

The Creative Education team have been talking to UCA courses with 90% or above in the National Student Survey.  The idea of the conversations has been to explore some of the creative pedagogies used to keep students satisfied with their … Continue reading →

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Student Induction: Mitigating withdrawal and enabling retention?

Posted on October 26, 2018 by amckie

Studies at UCA on the first year experience (Barratt, 2017; Allder & Fitzwater, 2018) have shown that introducing students to disciplinary cultures at an early stage in their HE journey has many advantages in terms of increasing student preparedness, easing … Continue reading →

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Listening Post @ UCA Gateway

Posted on August 14, 2018 by claireanniescott

Rosie Holmes- Learning Support Coordinator, shares her summary about initiating the Listening Post project.  Image: Anthony Browne (1977) A Walk In The Park UCA is currently piloting a new pastoral service for students called ‘Listening Post’ at Farnham, Epsom and … Continue reading →

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Understanding and improving the student experience: making a real difference in the new age of metrics

Posted on May 31, 2018 by amckie

8 things I learnt about student engagement at the SEDA Conference, Leeds, May 2018 1. Metrics are an important element of TEF, but we also need qualitative evaluation alongside metrics mindedness. Rather than getting everyone looking into the same challenges, … Continue reading →

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