| Description |
xxiv, 262 pages ; 24 cm ; pbk. |
| Contents |
Setting the scene -- Student diversity in higher education -- The impact of diversity in higher education institutions -- Managing the student experience -- The Student Experience Practitioner Model -- Stages in the Student Experience Practitioner Model -- First contact and admissions: beginning the journey. |
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Case Study 1 'This is me!' -- exploring a more confident approach to the transition process for disabled applicants from school and college to university -- Case Study 2 Support of 'Looked After Children' and 'Care Leavers' into higher education -- Case Study 3 The development of the 'Kies Actief Toolkit'(KAt) to create awareness on competencies, aspirations and expectations from application to the end of the first year of study at university -- Case Study 4 Preparing students for learning at the University of Portsmouth (PrepUP) using social media -- Pre-arrival. |
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Case Study 5 QMAdvance -- a three-day orientation programme for new mature students -- Case Study 6 Commonplace -- an online student survival guide to the University of the Arts London -- Case Study 7 JumpStart -- successful transition to university -- Case Study 8 Enhancing transitions and retention for direct-entry (also known as Top-up) students transferring from a Foundation Degree (Fd) course -- 7 Arrival and orientation -- Case Study 9 Life through a Lens -- the student view of the first three weeks of term -- Case Study 10 Using personality type to improve student persistence and success. |
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Case Study 11 The University of Johannesburg First Year Experience (Level 1)-- Case Study 12 Learning from their experience -- advice from senior undergraduates for Level 1 students pursuing science degrees -- Induction; Case Study 13 Early Days -- an online learner support tool to enhance new students' experiences -- Case Study 14 An experiential project to induct and connect a diverse group of first-year students with their peers, their school and its staff -- Case Study 15 Career passport -- an introduction to career planning for first-year (Level 1) students and beyond. |
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Case Study 16 Encouraging Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WiSET)9 Reorientation and reinduction to study -- Case Study 17 Promoting employability skills through Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) -- Case Study 18 'Essentials for ... ' -- programme level support through Blackboard -- Case Study 19 Extended reinduction at module level -- developing a curriculum to deliver discipline-specific content and the transition of students to Level 5 learning. |
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Case Study 20 The use of surveys to improve the reflection skills of returning students, to develop reinduction and outduction activities, and to engage male learners. |
| Summary |
Supporting Student Diversity in Higher Education is a working manual that is designed to help managers, academics and members of the professional service teams within universities, recruit and support a diverse student body across the student lifecycle at the same time as delivering a quality student experience in a challenging and pressured environment. Using the Student Experience Practitioner Model as a framework, this book helps colleagues responsible for improving the student experience navigate their way through the maze of student diversity across all levels of study. |
| Local Note / Price |
38.65 |
| Subject(s) |
Education, Higher.
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Educational equalization.
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College attendance.
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College attendance.
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Education, Higher.
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Educational equalization.
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| Genre |
Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0415818230 (Paper) |
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9781135911171 |
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1135911177 |
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0415818222 (Cloth) |
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9780415818223 (Cloth) |
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9780415818230 (Paper) |
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9781299744189 (MyiLibrary) |
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1299744184 (MyiLibrary) |
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