1. A briefing about referring students to the SU for advice The Academic and Welfare Advisor, Students’ Union highlighted her role and what support the Students’ Union could provide. The Committee noted that the support offered by the SU was independent of the University, covering a range of issues such as advice on accommodation or helping students to be more prepared in academic misconduct or fitness to practice cases. This was beneficial for students, but more needed to be done to promote awareness of this role, particularly amongst Personal Academic Tutors. Institutes were asked to consider inviting the SU Academic and Welfare Advisor to an Institute staff meeting. 2. An update on the Library Services’ Learner Journeys project The Team Leader: Academic Services, Library Services… Read moreSummary Report of the Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee meeting held on Wednesday 8th March 2017

Last month the Higher Education Statics Agency (HESA) published the most recent set of performance indicators for higher education providers, including data on retention, or more precisely, non-continuation of students in the year following entry to higher education. Performance indicators are benchmarked to allow meaningful comparisons between providers by taking into account the different mix of students at each provider. A summary of how the University is doing on retention follows: