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A transforming education: widening participation as a foundation

Mark PeelPro Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience)

A focus on transformation• the opportunity—and obligation-for transformation

• a university education built around transformation

• looking backwards

• broadening access: partnerships in educational opportunity and educational success between schools, colleges and universities

• putting the student’s success at the heart of what we do

From access to success

• a focus on transition: work within universities, work with schools

• a Fabulous First Year as a foundation– teaching, assessment, transition to independent study and

transition to independent life– universal peer mentoring and student-to-student

engagement– the ‘learning gain’ project: developing measurements and

interventions for increased success– professional dispositions: entitlements, obligations, values

and behaviours

Transformative impact

• employability and professional futures

• emphasising our responsibilities

• transformation as an obligation for everyone

• why it works for widening participation students: it makes what we do the issue and allows us to focus on sensible, practical support to overcome real deficits

• why it works for everyone: disrupting and dislodging complacent ways of learning and succeeding