Over the next five years, our aim is to ensure our students are equipped for success and are ready to succeed and secure positive outcomes aligned to their career aspirations once they leave university.
As an anchor institution in the region, we’re uniquely placed to respond to employers’ talent development challenges. To do this, we will continue to co-create a high-quality curriculum with industry and our partners that is focused on subject and discipline, graduate attributes, enterprise, entrepreneurship and career development. We will also expand lifelong learning opportunities to meet the evolving needs of students and employers.
To ensure our students are equipped for successful careers, we will…
- co-create an employer-focused curriculum with industry and our partners locally and internationally
- expand lifelong learning opportunities to meet the evolving needs of students and employers
- use our Student Engagement and Success plan, which focuses on education developing students’ skills for life
- deliver innovative, inclusive and authentic approaches to teaching, learning and assessment supported by strong personal and academic skills support
- continue our longstanding commitment to research informed teaching and blended learning
- further enhance our learning resources, estate, processes and systems to enable our students to maximise their learning
- instil a culture of reflection and innovation, to deliver inclusive and authentic experiences to our diverse community of students.
What we are already doing well…
Our commitment to delivering an exceptional student experience is already gaining national recognition. We are the top university in the east of England for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2024 and ranked fifth in the country in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2024. In 2023, we earned a silver rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework, and our ambition is to achieve gold in 2027.
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