Directors of Learning and Teaching
September 2009
Vivien Jones
Inspire our Students to develop
their full potential
• Deliver an exceptional student experience centred on
inspirational learning and teaching
• Translate excellence in research and scholarship into
learning opportunities for students
• Recruit and support high quality students from all
backgrounds
• Deliver a postgraduate research experience that attracts
the world’s best students
Inspire our Students:
strategic priorities
Translate excellence in research and scholarship into learning
opportunities for students
• a distinctive and sustainable research-led curriculum
Deliver an exceptional student experience centred on inspirational
learning and teaching
• Leeds for Life
• Review and delivery of effective and efficient student processes (including pgr)
• Edward Boyle refurbishment and extension
Recruit and support high quality students from all backgrounds
• Access to Leeds / contextual admissions
• Focused WP and outreach activity
• National fair access initiatives
Inspire our Students:
‘core business’
Development of an attractive and sustainable curriculum
• Review the way L&T is structured and delivered, including increased internationalisation of the
curriculum
• Further develop and embed Leeds for Life
Focus on quality of taught and research student experience
• Develop a more integrated support service for taught and research students
• Introduce effective, efficient and wherever possible standardised taught and PGR student
processes and support structures
• Ensure experiential focus is integral to PGR review
• Deliver the Edward Boyle Library refurbishment and extension as part of the wider provision of a
model for L&T space in the context of blended learning
Co-ordinated and focused approach to outreach activity
•
Integrate WP/outreach activity with schools liaison at institutional and faculty level
•
Continued active participation in innovative WP initiatives, including HEFCE-funded Russell/94
Group ‘Realising Opportunities’ project, encouraging students from disadvantaged
backgrounds to come to research-intensive institutions
Inspire our Students:
NSS
% agree
2009
Change between
2008 and 2009
(percentile points)
2008
Question category
UL
Sector
UL minus
Sector
UL
Sector
UL minus
Sector
UL
Sector
Teaching
86
83
+3
85
83
+2
+1
0
Assessment &
feedback
61
65
-4
60
64
-4
+1
+1
Academic support
75
74
+1
74
74
0
+1
0
Organisation &
management
79
72
+7
78
73
+5
+1
-1
Learning
resources
86
80
+6
88
81
+7
-2
-1
Personal
development
76
79
-3
76
78
-2
0
+1
Overall
satisfaction
84
81
+3
85
83
+2
-1
-2
Inspire our Students:
the wider landscape
•
Fees review: need to maintain competitive edge; fulfil and
manage raised student expectations
•
Financial constraints; possible reduction in unit of
resource for teaching
QUALITY; CONSISTENCY