OUR LEARNING AND TEACHING The sharing of knowledge to nurture independent, critical thinking is fundamental to our purpose. It enables our students to be resilient in the face of global challenges and to adapt to the changing world of work. We will continue to promote online learning and blended teaching provision, an approach that we have implemented and learned from during the Covid-19 pandemic. We celebrate our Welsh heritage and are proud to be part of a bilingual nation. We respect students’ right to study through the medium of Welsh and will expand our range of opportunities for them to do so. We will also work to maintain our status as a community that balances research and teaching excellence.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: The knowledge and experiences we provide to our students and the skills we help them acquire are relevant to the needs of our community. We embrace opportunities to bring together perspectives and expertise from different disciplines and will develop interdisciplinary degree programmes that complement our successful, subject-specific programmes. We will further expand our course offering to include new programmes that add value within our region and internationally, such as in pharmacy, sports management and coaching, and physiotherapy. A GLOBAL OUTLOOK: Our graduates work in an increasingly connected world that demands appreciation and understanding of other cultures and countries. We provide imaginative opportunities for our students to study and work abroad during their degree programmes, and to relate their learning to the challenges faced by communities around the world. The programmes we provide resonate with students from over 140 countries and we will seek opportunities to extend our provision further beyond our national borders.
SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE: We will work to embed the sustainable development goals across our curriculum, relating teaching to societal challenges. We will increase the proportion of BAME staff members at all levels and will integrate more Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic perspectives into our curriculum to address the attainment gap. We also recognise that learning should be a lifetime endeavour and will expand opportunities for adult learners to acquire new skills and to pursue their intellectual interests. STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE: We will gauge the success of our Learning and Teaching Strategy through the Teaching Excellence Framework and the National Student Survey. We set high expectations and measure our standards in collaboration with the Quality Assurance Agency. Our Gold TEF award reflects our nationally recognised excellence.
“It is important that we teach our students to be resilient and that it is OK not to succeed first time, every time.” JB, Arts and Humanities
A SECOND CENTURY OF MAKING WAVES
A SECOND CENTURY OF MAKING WAVES
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