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Working with disabled students What makes a successful student? Understanding your students Unconscious bias Top tips for providing rich feedback Top tips for CV writing Top tips for academic writing Study Skills for successful students Role models Promote a sense of belonging Professional behaviour for placement students Professional behaviour in the classroom Plagiarism: A guide for students Mentoring Mind your language! Raising expectations Learning analytics Internationalising the curriculum Information literacy How to improve your employability Fit to submit: Assignment checklist Digital literacy Debunking the degree: Rules of engagement Building student confidence Inclusive pedagogy Understanding the assignment Plagiarism: A guide for staff Students as partners e Context n The proportion of UK-domiciled BME students across the sector increased from 14.9% in 2003/4 to 18.4% in 2010/11. n The attainment gap is highest in England, where 69.9% of white qualifiers obtained a ‘good degree’ (1st or 2i) compared to 50.9% of BME qualifiers – a 19% gap in attainment. (Ref: ECU Equality – HE: Statistical Report 2012 Part 2: Students) Practical Recipes for Student Success www.derby.ac.uk ere is no Magic Bullet “A simple explanation for the attainment and satisfaction gap of Black students does not exist… it is a complex issue with a range of causal factors’’ (Ref: ‘Race for Equality: a report on the experiences of black students in Higher and Further Education’, NUS 2011). Taking a post-racial perspective Moving from cultural sensitivity to contextual sensitivity (Ref: Dr. Gurnam Singh, Principal Lecturer in Social Work and National Teaching Fellow, University of Coventry, Presentation on ‘BME Attainment: interventions and next steps’ given at the University of Derby 2013). P ractical Re cipes for S tudent S uccess- guidance for staff responding to the Black, Minority and Ethnic (BME) student attainment gap (work in progress) Jean Mutton Student Experience Project Manager, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB email: [email protected] telephone: 01332 592299 Twitter: @myderbi

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Page 1: Practical Recipes for Student Success- … · the assignment Plagiarism: A guide for staff Students as partners The Context n The proportion of UK-domiciled BME students across the

Working with

disabled

students

What makesa successfulstudent?

Understandingyour students

Unconsciousbias

Top tips for

providing rich

feedbackTop tips

for CV writing

Top tipsfor academicwriting

Study Skills

for successful

students

Role

models

Promotea senseof belonging

Professional

behaviour

for placement

students

Professionalbehaviour inthe classroom

Plagiarism:

A guide for

students

Mentoring

Mind your

language!

Raising

expectations

Learninganalytics

Internationalising

the curriculumInformationliteracy

How to improveyouremployability

Fit to submit:

Assignment

checklist

Digitalliteracy

Debunking the

degree: Rules of

engagementBuilding studentconfidence

Inclusivepedagogy

Understanding

the assignment

Plagiarism:

A guide for staff

Studentsas partners

The Contextn The proportion of UK-domiciled BME

students across the sector increased from14.9% in 2003/4 to 18.4% in 2010/11.

n The attainment gap is highest in England,where 69.9% of white qualifiers obtaineda ‘good degree’ (1st or 2i) compared to50.9% of BME qualifiers – a 19% gapin attainment.

(Ref: ECU Equality – HE: Statistical Report 2012Part 2: Students)

Practical

Recipes for

Student Success

www.derby.ac.uk

There is no Magic Bullet“A simple explanation for the attainment and satisfaction gap of Blackstudents does not exist… it is a complex issue with a range of causal factors’’(Ref: ‘Race for Equality: a report on the experiences of black students inHigher and Further Education’, NUS 2011).

Taking a post-racial perspectiveMoving from cultural sensitivity to contextual sensitivity (Ref: Dr. GurnamSingh, Principal Lecturer in Social Work and National Teaching Fellow,University of Coventry, Presentation on ‘BME Attainment: interventions andnext steps’ given at the University of Derby 2013).

Practical Recipes for Student Success-guidance for staff responding to the Black, Minority andEthnic (BME) student attainment gap (work in progress)Jean Mutton Student Experience Project Manager, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GBemail: [email protected] telephone: 01332 592299 Twitter: @myderbi