Supporting successful student transitions

This resource will support students to create their own Independent Learning Plans that will help them to manage their goals and expectations through university. The leaflet explains the purpose and potential impact of the Independent Learning Plan to students.

This resource will support students to create their own Independent Learning Plans that will help them to manage their goals and expectations through university. The guidance document is written for tutors with the aim of explaining the rationale, design and suggested uses for the Independent Learning Plan student resource.

This resource will support students to create their own Independent Learning Plans that will help them to manage their goals and expectations through university. The customisable template will help students record their strengths, challenges and successes during the academic year and plan for key milestones.

This resource will support students to create their own Independent Learning Plans that will help them to manage their goals and expectations through university. The customisable template will help students record their strengths, challenges and successes during the academic year and plan for key milestones.

This resource is designed to support university staff in helping to identify potential subject knowledge gaps for incoming students and develop inclusive curricula that address these. It discusses Universal Design for Learning (UDL), an educational framework which supports faculty to develop inclusive curricula that can accommodate individual learning differences.

This resource is designed to support university staff in helping to identify potential subject knowledge gaps for incoming students and develop inclusive curricula that address these. It has been designed to work alongside, and provide further detail underpinning the QAA resource, Supporting students with potential knowledge gaps post-pandemic.

This resource draws on practice at the University of Sussex, and is intended to be used by staff in higher education providers who are designing courses or activities to support student transitions into HE.

This resource is from our student transitions project and is designed for staff to help create community-building initiatives with students.

This resource is from our student transitions project and is designed for staff to help create community-building initiatives with students.

This resource is from our student transitions project and is designed for staff to help create community-building initiatives with students.

This resource is from our student transitions project and is designed for staff to help create community-building initiatives with students.

This resource is from our student transitions project and is designed for staff to help create community-building initiatives with students.

This case study illustrates how a staff-student partnership approach was adopted to better understand staff and students’ expectations of community within one department at the University of Sussex Business School.

This practical, student-facing resource is aimed at new students starting university and was produced by Dr Pam Birtill, Dr Richard Harris and Madeleine Pown from the University of Leeds. Anticipating the sort of questions students might have as they start to navigate university life, the guide has been created to help explain some of the terminology and expressions they are likely to encounter and help them settle in at their chosen institution.

In this resource, Dr Karen Campbell from Glasgow Caledonian University, explores ways of embedding a sense of belonging among students as they make transitions into and through higher education. The paper discusses key challenges and opportunities for building belonging in the post-pandemic student experience and offers practical examples and activities that could be introduced in other institutions.

This document provides a collection of practical resources and links to think pieces to support student transitions to higher education. It is intended to demonstrate what UK providers are doing to enable students to settle into life at their chosen institution and to make the most of all the range of services and opportunities available to them as they embark on and progress through their learning journey.

This Toolkit is divided into three sections and the first describes how student engagement changes and develops over their university journey based on their perspective of value creation. The second section showcases how to identify the value journey in your own institution, by discussing a case study at St Mary’s University Careers Service. The final section provides activities for use across the undergraduate year group which can be applied in the academic environment and relate to the student value journey.

In this paper, Alice Wilby, Pro-Vice-Chancellor - Access, Participation and Student Experience at University College Birmingham, explains how adopting a marketing lens is helping the University to develop and apply a student-centred approach to induction.