Student Success 2024: Solutions on Continuation and Completion
Wednesday 27th November 2024
9:30 am - 3:10pm
Virtual Conference
Student Success 2024 will explore how universities can build an evidence-led approach to engagement, continuation and completion with impactful academic and service design at all stages of the student journey.
The Conference will:
Explore the latest innovations in supporting enhanced continuation and completion
Assess evidence-led solutions on improving engagement and transitions across the student journey
Examine the next steps on academic quality and curriculum design in improving attainment for students at risk of non-continuation
Analyse the barriers to student success for underrepresented students and how universities are developing provision to reduce inequalities in outcomes
Discover fresh insights on embedding student belonging and wellbeing interventions into institution-wide delivery
Why attend the conference?
Gain practical ideas for enhancing the impact of your student success strategy
Uncover new evidence-led approaches to improve student continuation
Work with sector experts to build a toolkit for optimising your student journey
Agenda
09:30 am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Louise Banahene MBE
Director of Educational Engagement and Student Success
University of Leeds (CONFIRMED)
09:40 am
Enhancing the Impact of a Student Success Strategy
Re-examining the student journey and the core risks to continuation and completion
Building an institution-wide approach to belonging and wellbeing as a driver for success
Assessing how we better understand student engagement and deliver high quality interventions
The next steps on impactful insight and evaluation in identifying barriers to success for students at risk
Supporting improved co-production and collaboration with students
Naomi Oosman-Watts
Director of Student Success
Newcastle University (CONFIRMED)
Jill Gribble
Assistant Director, PVC (Students)
The Open University (CONFIRMED)
Professor Claire Hamshire
Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor Education & Student Experience
The University of Salford (CONFIRMED)
10:40 am
A Deep Dive on the Student Journey: How Can We Enhance Core Transitions Across the Lifecyle?
Mapping the core transition points across the lifecycle and the barriers to success at each stage
Common gaps on student expectations, confidence and perceptions on value
Assessing the design and delivery of existing student interventions at key transition points: What works?
Harnessing the Advance HE Student Success Framework to drive development of student transitions
Juliette Gaunt
Senior Consultant (Student Success)
Advance HE (CONFIRMED)
11:10 am
Break and Networking
11:30 am
Unlocking Student Success: Creating Empowerment Through Engagement Data
Student engagement: the shift in responsibility
Understanding both context and meaning of student engagement
The use of data to provide meaningful insight to student experience and service need
Following the data: data engagement and success predictors
Our data-Informed Intervention Strategy
Rebecca Lancett
Head of Student Participation and Success
Keele University (CONFIRMED)
Simon Rimmington
Director of Foundation Year
Keele University (CONFIRMED)
12:00 pm
Overcoming the Mental Health Barriers to Inclusion – Supporting Belonging to Drive Student Success
Managing the unbreakable connection between mental health, belonging and student success
The central challenges on self-doubt, isolation and loneliness
The core enablers on study, skills and environment that can support positive mental health outcomes across the student experience
Embedding mental wellbeing and belonging into a wider student success agenda
What are the solutions on inclusive practice to support positive pedagogy, service design and community building?
Professor Kate Lister
Professor of Education and Associate Dean of EDI
Arden University (CONFIRMED)
12:30 pm
Staff Development Approaches to Support Student Engagement in Learning and Teaching Activities in a Research-Intensive Higher Education Institution
Context of our institution and education development unit
What does meaningful and impactful student engagement look like?
Strategies, tools, and pedagogic approaches to support and encourage meaningful and inclusive student engagement in the Higher Education classroom
Including classroom management techniques, active and flipped learning
Dr Peter Fitch
Associate Professor, UCL's Arena Centre for Research-based Education and Associate Director UCL Higher Education and Development Support Institute (Faculty Partnership & Programme Enhancement)
University College London (UCL) (CONFIRMED)
1:00 pm
Break and Networking
2:00 pm
Designing a Student Success Strategy Aligned to Improving Continuation Rates
Building a student success strategy at London Metropolitan University aligned to an established Social Justice Framework
Delivering practical action areas for a set of ambitions on supporting continuation after the first year of study and reducing awarding and progression gaps for BAME students
Exploring practical solutions on continually surpassing B3 requirements of the Office for Students
Setting a structure for performance indicators that can be clearly linked to student outcomes
Examining approaches to monitoring and evaluating the delivery of a student success strategy
Alexandra Banks
Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, Student Success
London Metropolitan University (CONFIRMED)
2:30 pm
Building a Theory of Change to Address Ethnicity Degree Awarding Gaps
A deep dive on the TASO study exploring interventions used by 6 universities on closing the ethnicity degree awarding gap
Assessing how to move from intervention design to an established Theory of Change which links action areas to intended outcomes
What are the core features in developing a Theory of Change around closing ethnicity degree awarding gaps?
How can a Theory of Change improve understanding of interventions and support new approaches to design and investment?
Dr Sally Andrews
Pedagogic Projects Dev Manager
Staffordshire University (CONFIRMED)
Sarah Conner
Research Manager
TASO (CONFIRMED)
3:10 pm
Conference Close
*Programme subject to change
Audience
This event is designed for all those delivering the student success agenda across higher education. Those in attendance will include:
Directors of Academic Quality
Directors for Student and Academic Services
Directors of Student Learning
Directors of Student Experience
Deans for Teaching and Learning
Associate Deans
Academic Registrars
Pro Vice Chancellors for Education
Heads of Student Life
Heads of Student Success
Heads of Student Engagement
Academic Quality Managers
Student Engagement Managers
Student Success Manager
Widening Participation Managers
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