The Professional Services team in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts has been short-listed in the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards.
Outstanding Departmental Administration Team
In line with the University’s institutional strategy to heighten student satisfaction and embrace the government’s Teaching Excellence Framework, the team are being recognised for the exceptional work in student preparedness, recruitment and student success.
As a result of EDA’s commitment to understanding their student community, the team have developed outstanding innovations by maximizing the creative engineering and digital media resources available in their School; many of which have been developed as a direct result of the Student Success (EDI) Project and EDA’s Student Success (EDI) Project Officer.
They spearheaded an innovative animation to facilitate students’ preparedness for University, and introduced a highly successful Welcome Week Icebreaker event to help build friendships and school orientation.
They devised an innovative student progress profiling system that charts students’ academic progress which is now generating interest across the wider university and developed a Virtual Student Advisor (VSA), a dynamic webpage that centralises the navigation of many of the university’s resources for pastoral/academic support.
The winners of the 2016 THE award will be announced at a special event in London in the summer.