This video can be seen alongside others from the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Open Lecture series and annual conferences on the EDU Vimeo channel. The HERE (Higher Education: Retention and Engagement) Project explored how to support students with their transition into the first year, looking primarily at why students stay rather… Continue reading
What is the experience of transition like, for new post-graduate students? They are not new to University as such – but they may be new to our university. They will have studied at levels 4,5,6 – but what do they expect postgraduate study to be like and are they prepared… Continue reading
The university has a new policy on New Arrivals and Transition – this can be found at: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/policy. The policy grew out of the earlier Policy Framework : The student experience of arrival, induction and orientation: a policy framework (which can also be found at the above link) – and… Continue reading
This word cloud captures the responses of new students we talked to at the Freshers’ Fairs in September: We asked them to complete the sentence: “ My experience of being a new student so far is…….”. The size of the words indicates how often they were used in student’s comments… Continue reading