Ensuring excellence in learning & teaching

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Strategic Curriculum Development

2014+

Distinctive teaching at Sheffield

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• The most radical change to our teaching for over 20 years

• Driven by a desire to enhance our students’ learning experience and future professionalism and employability

• Create a distinctive and sought-after Sheffield Graduate who brings high quality attributes and skills to the workplace

• Demonstrates that we proactively take the lead amongst our competitors

• Puts our students’ needs at the heart of what we do

UG students will be…

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• Engaging with academics and their research from the outset of their studies

• Tackling some of the biggest global challenges facing society today

• Working across disciplines to broaden their horizons and subject knowledge

• Developing team working and problem solving skills

This will be delivered through…

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Opportunities to extend academic and personal development through co and extra-curricular activities

Achieve More.Achieve More is your chance to work alongside students from other disciplines developing potential solutions for a range of real-life global problems.

Challenging, fulfilling and highly rewarding, Achieve More is a great way to use your knowledge, acquire new skills, encounter new ideas and to showcase yourself to prospective employers.

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• Communicates going beyond the degree - ‘As a Sheffield Graduate, I’ve achieved more’

• Recognises the achievement attained and provides a sense of the challenges involved

• Provides a useable ‘badge’ for CVs and which employers can understand

• Will be applied to the Faculty specific challenges and projects at each level…

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Faculty of Arts & Humanities

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Faculty of Engineering

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Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health

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Faculty of Science

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Faculty of Social Sciences

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What’s next?• Communicate internally throughout Faculties and

Departments• Develop consistent communication and marketing to

prospective students• Embed the messages across all UG student recruitment

activities • New webpage for students with an overview of Achieve

More• Toolkit to provide guidance for Faculties

• Boilerplate copy (what we say about Achieve More)• Digital assets (logo, templates) for use in print, website,

presentations • Open Days materials