1. Student Education at Leeds Vivien Jones Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Education) Melissa Owusu Education Officer, LUU 20 January 2016

2. Contexts A constantly changing HE environment
Removal of the student number cap
£9k per year undergraduate fee
real-terms decline (£10.6k 2016)
‘value for money’
Unistats website and Key Information Set
Widening Participation
Other changes
New technologies
A-level ‘reform’
Immigration controls
Accountability
Institutional Review (QAA)
Teaching Excellence Framework

3. Improved NSS position:
Contexts
Improved Times League Table position, largely due to Student Education performance
Improved NSS position:
90% overall satisfaction
92% for teaching quality (2nd in Russell Group)
Up 3 points on assessment and feedback, academic support, personal development
In at least the top 5 in the Russell Group on all question categories
LUU 92% (23 points above sector average)
Improved DLHE score (class of 2014): from 74.8% to 78.4% graduate destinations
Highest ever number of entrants through Access to Leeds

4. Our platform
The Partnership
The Leeds Curriculum
LeedsforLife
The Student Education Service
Outreach and widening participation

5. 1. The Partnership
partnership.leeds.ac.uk

6. 2. The Leeds Curriculum Integration of research and teaching
Involvement of cutting-edge academics in teaching
Involvement of students in research methodologies
Students understand the value of research-based learning for their future employability
Creating Sustainable Futures; Enterprise and Innovation; Ethics, Religion and Law; Exploring the Sciences; Languages and Intercultural Understanding; Media, Culture and Creativity; Mind and Body; Personal and Professional Development; Power and Conflict; Technology and its Impacts

7. 3. LeedsforLife
Leeds for Life ‘an entitlement for all students which helps them integrate their academic and co-curricular university experience and prepare for their future’
Owned by the individual student, it helps them:
recognise the distinctiveness of their Leeds education
tailor it to fit their achievements, interests and ambitions
describe clearly and effectively the values, qualities and skills derived from their UoL experience

9. Student Opportunity; Student Operations; Admissions and Recruitment
4. The Student Education Service
Student Opportunity; Student Operations;
Admissions and Recruitment
grounded in principles of quality, equity, consistency and opportunity for students and for its staff;
works in a fully integrated way to the highest service standards;
works in partnership with academic colleagues, other services and Leeds University Union, in support of the whole student experience, both curricular and co-curricular, in line with LeedsforLife;

10. students.leeds.ac.uk
ses.leeds.ac.uk

11. 5. Outreach and widening participation
Access Agreement
£16m investment in outreach and financial support
1 in 3 students benefit from our financial support package
Educational Engagement
Contextual admissions: ‘Access to Leeds’
Faculty hubs
Aspiration-raising activities in schools and colleges
Leading role in national and regional projects
Lifelong Learning Centre
Focus on adult and part-time learners from under-represented groups
Preparation for HE; Foundation provision; short courses
Support for and partnership with Faculties
On course
Leeds +

12. Digital resources: UniLeeds

13. Digital resources: learning channels

14. Resources Support for Learning and Teaching
Learning Enhancement (Student Opportunity)
Quality Assurance (Student Operations)
Professional and Organisational Development Centre (formerly SDDU)
Resources for Learning and Teaching
Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence & Innovation
Library
Digital Learning Team
Casebook website
University Student Education Fellowships
Discussion and collaboration
Student Education Conference and Bulletin
Directors of SE Forum

15. Strategic priorities
To develop greater flexibility in programme design
International and work experience opportunities
Breaking down the curricular/co-curricular boundary
Collaborative provision
Distance learning and ‘unbundled’ programmes
To implement integrated employability support in partnership with alumni and employers
To make a step change in internationalisation of the student experience
To confirm and promote our commitment to student education through promotions and the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence and Innovation
To further improve our success in attracting students from diverse backgrounds

16. Our objective
To provide an outstanding education which will attract, excite and retain high quality students from diverse backgrounds, and equip them to succeed in a competitive global employability market, and to make a difference
The aspiration that our students should ‘make a difference’ is a statement not just about achievement but about values. Along with the confidence and flexibility of mind they will need to identify and solve problems and face as yet unknown challenges, a Leeds graduate should also, I hope, have a sense that an outstanding education is a huge advantage but also that it carries a responsibility to give something back – not just to change things, but to change things for the better.