Teaching. Learning and Assessment Strategy
Students on Taught Programmes
Current Version: April 2024 v1
The context
The Centre’s Strategic Plan identifies as a key strategic aim: “To provide our learners with an “education for application”.
This Learning and Teaching Strategy identifies the key outcomes of the educational experience for the Centre students, with a particular focus on enabling every student to achieve the attributes, behaviours and skills.
The Centre Graduate: The Centre has already identified the key outcomes, in the form of the attributes that it will develop in its students.
The key attributes of the Centre Graduate are a graduate who:
- Is creative
- Works with intelligence
- Is a critical thinker
- Is socially responsible
- Works independently
Using the strategy
The strategy is a key document when creating, validating or reviewing programmes. It is also a source of performance indicators for the departmental Quality Enhancement committees.
Learning and Teaching strategy – key propositions, outcomes and approaches
A commitment to excellence: The Learning and Teaching experience for all students at the Centre is grounded in learning and teaching that is of the highest quality, delivered by appropriately qualified and experienced academic staff who are deeply engaged with their disciplines and committed to providing an inspiring student experience.
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Action Plan
Student focused: At the heart of the strategy is a commitment to learning and teaching which is focused on the student experience. The key learning and teaching approaches that will support the delivery of this are those which ensure that the student is treated as an individual in the learning journey. This requires the provision of classes which are appropriate in size so that every student is enabled to contribute and to develop, and the use of the full range of teaching practices in order to enhance the learning experience. The strategy recognises the importance of supporting learning communities, and of being alert to innovations in teaching practice which may add value to learning.
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Challenging: Our Strategic Plan provides that: “We will provide … a learning experience which equips students with the skills and qualities for employment and to build successful and fulfilling careers.” In order to achieve this our learning and teaching needs to be rigorous and inspirational, with shared expectations between academics and students that our graduates will achieve the highest standards in their performance. Implicit in this, is the requirement that we encourage independence of thought, the desire to understand and to advance within the discipline, and the ability to reflect on what has been achieved. In turn this requires a community of academic staff who are committed to and supported in their own development and who remain deeply engaged with their disciplines.
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Education for Application: The Centre is committed to an educational experience which prepares all its students for graduate employment, and equips its students with the skills to build successful and fulfilling careers and to contribute to the wider community. Through our learning and teaching we will work with students to promote employability, embedding the necessary skills and qualities in our curriculum. We will build on the Centre’s existing reputation as a sector-leader in the provision of work-place learning and applied education so that the learning and teaching experience for all our students is relevant, expert and up-to-date.
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Engaged: Our Strategic Plan makes clear our commitment to being an active corporate citizen supporting local communities and influencing and guiding regional development agendas. Through our Learning and Teaching we will support a community of learners which is inclusive and diverse, informed by international developments. Our students will be committed to their own self-development, and to the development of their own moral and ethical standards. We understand our role as an academic community within our local and regional communities and are committed to ensuring that we work as part of these communities.
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KPIs (corporate plan 2024-2025)
- Retention – to achieve HEFCE performance benchmark indicator
- Achievement – to increase the % of students achieving pass (and if applicable) high grades such as Merits & Distinctions
- Satisfaction – to achieve higher student satisfaction
- Employability – to achieve HEFCE performance benchmark indicator
- Academic profile – To have more staff obtaining qualifications such as teacher’s qualification, HEA Fellowship, etc.
- Technology enhanced learning – to ensure versatile use of Virtual Learning Environment (VLEs)
- CPD – Most academic staff to achieve qualifications such as teacher’s qualification, HEA Fellowship, etc.
Next stages
- Identify Performance Indicators
- Monitor
- Review
