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Updating our Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Strategy (LTSES)
Suzanne Cholerton
Learning and Teaching Conference 2012
6 July 2012
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Aims of the Session
• To reflect on where we are and what has been achieved
• To provide some context on the current HE environment
• To provide an opportunity for you to input into where we want the next Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Strategy (LTSES) to take us
• To have an enjoyable time working with unfamiliar/less familiar colleagues
• And finally - a little brain teaser!
Sildenafil
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So what is a strategy? What is our strategy?• "Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long-
term: which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations". (Johnson and Scholes, 2006)
Newcastle University’s Mission Statement• To be world-class research intensive university• To deliver teaching and facilitate learning of the highest quality• To play a leading role in the economic, social and cultural development
of the North East of England
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The current Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Strategy
• Published in 2006; revised in 2009/10
– To deliver research-informed teaching and facilitate learning of the highest standard
– To deliver a fully rounded, enjoyable and formative student experience
• Much has happened since then but our fundamental approach to LTSE remains the same
• Refresh rather than major overhaul
• We are in a good place………
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Learning, Teaching and the Student ExperienceOverall
satisfaction score for
ISB 2011 is 91.4%
18,000+ visitors at July Visit Days
2010 DLHE - 94.3%
employed; 77.7% in graduate
level jobs
Likely to be 10th in
BUCS 2012
PTES 2012 91%
satisfaction with course
89% for overall satisfaction in NSS 2011
Ranked 12th in Sunday Times
University Guide in 2012
Exceed HEFCE
benchmark for
retention (94.6% 2011)
>14,000 ‘ncl+’ opportunities
in 2011/12
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Over to you…….• How have you contributed to that ‘good place’?
• What have you achieved?
• What are you most proud of?
• What has your School/programme done well?
But what are the challenges and to what are we already committed?
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Context – the changing basis of funding
• Increased UG fees – decreased HEFCE funding
• Higher UG fees - higher expectations
• Higher fee dependent on meeting WP targets
• Knock-on effects of increasing UG fees (and debt accumulation) for PG
• Development of Doctoral Training Centres or equivalent
• Early CSR likely – forcing the cost down/increasing VFM
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Context – More competition (and collaboration?)
• De-regulation of UG recruitment
• New providers
• Increasing competition from international institutions
• Emphasis on collaboration– with business (Wilson Report)– Other HEIs - DTCs, N8, RO etc
• Stronger relationships with schools– Imperative to increase social mobility– ‘A’ level reform– UTCs/ HEI sponsored academies
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Context – Information for stakeholders
• Increased focus on information for and about students– KIS (‘comparetheprogramme.com’)– Student Charter– HEAR
• A PGT NSS? And then a KIS?
• HEFCE’s ‘The Wider Information Set’
• UK Professional Standards Framework - publication of staff teaching qualifications?
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Internal context
• Societal Challenge Themes
• Internationalisation strategy– International campus’–Challenges of diversity
• Digital Campus– Information systems–Digital literacy–Social media, APPs, on-line learning,
teaching, assessing etc–Open access
How have we used the Teaching, Learning and the Student Experience Strategy?
PGT ‘Offer’
FacultyLTSES
LT&SES
Vision 2021 UG ‘offer’
Vision 2021
• Recently updated and continues to commit us to:–Education for life–Student-centred approach–Value diversity–Research-informed experience –Support for employability –A fully rounded, enjoyable and
formative student experience
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Undergraduate ‘Offer’ and Student Charter• UG offer– an outline of a set of opportunities that
will form a core of each Newcastle student’s experience whatever their discipline
– all our students can expect provision that meets or exceeds a clearly defined threshold
• Student Charter– Articulates the ‘academic’ offer but also
goes beyond to include personal conduct, health, safety and wellbeing, etc
– Applicable to all students– Format: “We undertake.../You
undertake...”
1. Coherent programme
2. Research-informed teaching
3. Skills development
7. Thorough and timely orientation
6. Support from a personal tutor
5. Supportive assessment and
feedback
9. Good standard teaching and learning
facilities
10. Support for academic & personal
development
11. Opportunities for e-learning
4. Minimum contact time
8. Active membership of
University community
12. High quality information
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What’s next?• Food for thought
• Recognise external context but don’t let it stifle your thinking
• Consider internal context – how can we harness the initiatives?
• Consider what we’ve already committed to
• What – Education for life– Student-centred approach– Value diversity– Research-informed experience – Support for employability – A fully rounded, enjoyable and formative student experience