We recieved some great feedback from last years National Student Survey. 

Our 2025 graduates praised our: 

  • excellent quality of teaching and academic support
  • accessible range of learning resources and facilities 
  • strong application of theory to practice
  • lecturers knowledge and passion for their subject

Your ideas in action

Students having a group discussion

In relation to your academic experience, we are: 

  • Developing a 'Doing a Research Project' module for the  and introducing a student-led redesign of the portal to increase accessibility for visual and neurodivergent learners. 
  • Introducing an to answer enquires 24/7
  • Introducing "", an AI chatbot providing self-service IT support
  • Enhancing the MyDay app and intranet tools to improve usability and access to resources.
  • Introducing immersive technologies, including Mixed Reality (MR) and Virtual Reality (VR) tools, to enrich teaching experiences.
  • Reviewing Panopto lecture capture and Audio Visual training packages, supporting flexible and accessible learning.
  • Continuing improvement work on enahncing wifi access and speed across campus
  • Sharing best practice on Personal Academic Tutoring in School forums, providing training to staff and working to raise visibility of PAT with students
  • Improving guidance for course teams on academic induction, to reinforce key skills and messages throughout the early weeks of the course
  • Continually reviewing how we allocate students to placements and are working hard on making further improvements, such as ensuring all returning students receive details of their placement at least 6 weeks before their placement starts

To support health and well-being, we are: 

  • Providing you with practical support via our student life advisers within our student support and wellbeing team, alongside our
  • Holding induction and welcome activities for our students who arrive in January
  • Relabelling disabled toilets to accessible toilets following feedback from the Disabled Students’ Network
  • Providing the CallMy app to contact help in the event of an emergency on campus, and TalkWorc - our 24/7 text support service with Shout

To help with the cost of living, we are: 

  • Supporting students across campus to ‘Heat and Eat’ with microwaves and kettles as part of our response to the cost of living
  • Hosting Repair Cafes to support our sustainability agenda as well as helping to manage costs for students
  • Removing all Library Services fines for all university members and automatically up to nine times, unless the book is reserved. ( after this point will incur a charge)
  • Providing long opening hours and extensive resources in The Hive, to ensure a warm, safe place to study and a new that helps students find a study space to suit them
Student receiving feedback from lecturer

In relation to assessment and feedback, we are:

  • Providing stronger assessment guidance and feedback consistency 
  • Conducting an ongoing review of assessment timing
  • Refreshing our Study Skills portal to ensure information is up to date and relevant, and have added support on . We have also updated the section, to provide skills guidance and support pre-arrival
  • Piloting early reassessment opportunities for Level 4 first semester 15 credit modules – this means you can complete any reassessment in semester two for any failed modules, rather than waiting until the summer
  • Encouranging all courses to consider how students can use generative artificial intelligence tools (e.g. Chat GPT) for different kinds of assessments and have produced