Welcome to the September Education Bulletin, Student
Through these monthly emails, we'll round up news, views and resources on all things education policy and quality in one place - covering work underway to support great education and what's coming up.
Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on previous editions - please feel free to let us know if you have any feedback this month, we would love to hear your thoughts.
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Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework 2023
We are delighted to share that Warwick has been awarded Gold for student experience, student outcomes and overall in TEF
The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) is a national scheme run by the Office for Students (OfS). Your concerted efforts across the University to co-create an outstanding education and student experience, and to deliver a more inclusive education, have been celebrated by the TEF panel and led us to the best possible outcome in the exercise. Read more here.
Our community's submissions to TEF
Hundreds of staff and students shared their views through 2022 on the educational excellence that is embedded across the board at Warwick. Through workshops, focus groups and sharing evidence, so many of you played a part in helping the University to put its best foot forward. We want to say thank you to you all.
Read the University's Provider Submission to TEF 2023.
Read Warwick SU's Student Submission to TEF 2023.
Learn more about TEF and how we developed our submission.
The stories behind our educational excellence
The TEF result recognises your innovation, collaboration and determination as an education community in recent years, made all the more impressive when taking the Covid-19 pandemic into account.
Today we are launching our Education Excellence Showcae to bring your stories of inspiring teaching, learning and student support to life. We will build the Showcase over time, creating a repository of practice, impact and learning that we can celebrate, learn from and embed further. Explore the Showcase online.
History of Art graduate, Leigh Mencarini: "I've earned the degree that I always felt I missed out on before, something of which I'm deeply proud."
WBS's Dr Bo Kelestyn: "All parts of the University come together to tackle big innovation challenges that we have within the community."
Humanitarian Engineering graduate and EPQ Co-Creation Officer, Nikita Asnani: "Student co-creation allows us to develop strategies together and collaborate on what they're going to look like."
Chemistry's Dr Tom Ritchie and Adam Alcock: We are Chemistry - how an initiative to build community post-Covid has led to innovative inclusion initiatives.
Celebrating our Inspirational Educators
We worked with colleagues in Marketing, Communications and Insight last year to launch the Excellence. Together. campaign celebrating the outstanding, hugely passionate staff who teach at Warwick, like the brilliant Rachel Dickinson NTF SFHEA, Associate Professor in WBS (pictured). This built on the Sunday Times naming us University of the Year for Teaching Quality in 2022 and has been a feature of student recruitment activity and Open Days ever since.
The campaign has been refreshed for this year and even more of you now feature. We especially like seeing lots of brilliant colleagues talking about their passion for teaching in the updated compilation video here.
Staff resources
Celebrate our teaching excellence framework triple-gold status on your department pages and in your department communications with our range of assets, available here.
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News, Updates and Projects
Through the last academic year there has been exploration and enquiry on the impact of artificial intelligence on academic integrity, resulting in an institutional guide that we are launching today.
The guide has been curated by Lee Griffin, Academic Director (PGT) and the University's Academic Integrity lead, with input from WIHEA Fellows and colleagues innovating in this space across the University. Find out more and read the guide here.
Students and staff from across faculties, wellbeing services and the Students' Union have collaborated to develop the University's new Code of Practice for Disabled Students.
The Code of Practice summarises policies and guidance on the legal requirements and recommendations for inclusive provision for disabled students. It aims to provide greater consistency in creating inclusive classroom practice, personal tutoring, and broader student experience. You can access the Code of Practice here.
Good Practice Guides
Good Practice Guides for the 2023/24 academic year were shared over the summer, and can be accessed on the EPQ website:
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What's coming up
25th September - 1st October - Welcome Week
28th September - Institutional Board of Examiners Meeting
2nd October - Start of 2023/24 academic year
4th October - Senate Sub-Group - UG finalists
5th October - Data reveal for finalist student decisions - departments can inform students as soon as decisions become available after BoE
16th October - Module registration closes. ATP sent to departments
20th October - Attendance/Engagement reporting period closes
27th October - Deadline for finalist students to opt in to optional resits
Further upcoming dates and deadlines are available on the Student Administrative Services Key Dates page.
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