Enhancing the Student Experience: Top 10 Education for Exeter

Janice Kay, Ashley Petrons, Michele Shoebridge, Keith Zimmerman

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’

Exeter Student Experience

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

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

Strategy for Education and Education Strategy: Challenges and Opportunities

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

Marketing, Recruitment & Admissions

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)

Raising UG Entry Standards

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)

Academic Experience

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)

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

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)

Engagement in Extra-Curricula

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@

Student Support

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

Employment & Post Exeter

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.)

Strategic Actions: Immediate