LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY

InductionQuality Assurance Services

Transition to University• Relocation: making the move from home

to University• Integration: mixing with different people• Lifestyle issues: making independent

choices• Domestication: learning to live

independently• Academic issues: recognising differences

between teaching at school and University

Things I Wish I’d Known In My First Year…

• Importance of Learning Communities• Support Networks• Learning, Teaching and Assessment• Expectations• Valuing Diversity• Engaged and Enjoying Learning

Importance of Learning Communities

Self-belief – Support Networks

Learning, Teaching and Assessment

Expectations77% expected to study <15 hours/week in

addition to class time60% expected to be taught everything they

needed to do well

What do students say about their expectations, their ‘experience’?

Some key themes from previous first year students:• Student life: ‘unsure as to whether I might fit in or not’; ‘making

friends early on’; ‘very confusing and so different from college or school’; ‘feels like a holiday at first then the initial buzz wears off’; ‘cost of ‘stuff’’; ‘you need living skills’; ‘accommodation’

• Academic work: ‘drafts’, ‘referencing’, ‘contact hours’; ‘workload’; ‘organisation of time’; ‘feedback useful’; ‘group work’

• Student/tutor relationship: ‘equal respect’; ‘personal’; ‘mature’; ‘open door policy’

Valuing diversity

Engaged and enjoying learning by giving time for …