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Reflections on the use of personae in learning design activities

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We encourage staff to think about what could be done practically to improve anything that causes concern, and if this is something that can be done within the design, or if it needs effort at a higher level, for instance working on the perception of the discipline or the admissions process.

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Supporting academic community at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Another example of community building is Student Recruitment and Admissions’ (SRA) pre-arrival activity. It reaches across academic communities, not least in working with the Council for Academics at Risk (CARA) UK Universities network ; an example of a shared interest as an effective driver to forming communities of practice.

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

Where it did score well was in the rate of increase of doctoral degree awards where it was clearly top in number and ‘productivity’ per FTE staff member. I postulate that that links to the development of EdD programmes with admission of students in group cohorts rather than individually. Impact 2014 42.9 Environment 2014 48.4

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Black Youth Mental Health: Understanding and Being Culturally Responsive to Promote Homeplace and Black Joy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

recruitment, admissions, retention, milestone navigation, etc.). The Journal of Staff Development , 42 (4), 40–44. Programs often serve as a systems model for graduates to understand how systems work and respond to current needs. Collaborate. Liberating school counseling to promote freedom dreaming for Black youth.