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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