SLIDE 1 Achieving an institutional culture
- f innovation and excellence
And delivering the Student experience.
John Grattan
What have we learned, what can you learn from us?
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- Leading institutional culture change
- Understanding the barriers to institutional
change and overcoming them
- Successful translation of success
- Ensuring consistency.
Core challenges
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The easy part
Solving structural issues
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The easy part – making the capital investment
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Estate developments - after
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Before –“The Dungeon”
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After
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Before
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After
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The hard part
Developing a culture of excellence
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Key messages are inconsistency and highly variable performance
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The hard part. Embedding a culture of excellence
The Student Success Plan & Tell us Now
SLIDE 15 The Student Success Plan: The university uniting to embed quality, excellence and consistency.
- 1. “Tell Us Now” - listening and responding to the Student voice_________________________pg.6
- 2. Staff Development)) __________________________________________________________pg.8
- 3. Personal Tutor Enhancement__________________________________________________pg.10
- 4. Skills and Learner Development________________________________________________pg.11
- 5. E-submission and Feedback - with a new emphasis on the quality of feedback___________pg.12
- 6. Academic and Curriculum (Retention)___________________________________________pg.14
- 7. Community (Retention) ______________________________________________________pg.16
- 8. Technical (Retention) ________________________________________________________pg.18
- 9. Employability ______________________________________________________________pg.20
- 10. Student Achievement________________________________________________________pg.21
- 11. Course Data Enhancement____________________________________________________pg.23
- 12. Joint/Combined Honours_____________________________________________________pg.24
- 13. First Year __________________________________________________________________pg.25
- 14. Enhancement of Welsh-Medium Provision and Experience__________________________pg.26
- 15. Higher Education and Achievement Record ______________________________________pg.27
- 16. Student Facing Services ______________________________________________________pg.28
- 17. Welcome Week and Matriculation _____________________________________________pg.30
SLIDE 16 Enhancement activities
- CTT project
- AberForward &
AberTemps
- Aber Academy
- Panopto lecture capture
- E-submission
- E-Feedback
- Blackboard minimum
standards
- 24 hour library.
- Timetable
- Talis Aspire reading lists.
- Ebrary
- Annual Learning and
Teaching conference.
- Exemplary course award
- Student led teaching
awards
professional Standards framework.
SLIDE 17 84% overall Satisfaction – for the acting VC’s module
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Did it work?
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Our best ever NSS performance
SLIDE 22 Question Bank National Ranking Improvement in Ranking
Overall Satisfaction 6th 104 Best in Wales Organisation 10th 80 Best in Wales Assessment 16th 90 Best in Wales Teaching 17th 84 Best in Wales Support 27th 98 Learning Res. 43rd 66 Personal Dev. 101st 46
SLIDE 23 Teaching Overall Satisfaction Aberystwyth 17 6 Bangor 27 19 Swansea 95 19 Cardiff 80 59 Glyndwr 55 85 UWTSD 95 100
137 114 USW 137 142
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Improvement in consistency of delivery
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Key lessons
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The answer is not regulation.
Rebuild confidence in the leadership and the strategy and communicate, communicate, communicate.
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Leadership
Share the analysis, the diagnosis & the solution.
