Academic Support comprises an array of tailored and responsive support for students to enable them to develop as learners and enhance their studies and creative practices. With the University’s move en masse to distributed and multimodal forms of instruction, Academic Support remains committed to providing high-quality and inclusive learning for all students that is continuous with the specialist disciplinary […]
At the start of the year I wrote a Hub post introducing course teams to the Academic Progression Tool, a digital, collaborative, monitoring and communication aide for prioritising support to Year 1 students. When we went into lock-down I directly contacted course teams to suggest they work with their APT workbooks and the APT team as they go […]
By Emily Salines As we are starting to settle into online delivery, reading again this article by Aisha S. Ahmad in the Chronicle of Higher Education (27 March 2020) – ‘Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure’ – reminds us to breathe and pace ourselves. The article reminds us that in due course we can […]
An introduction to the LCC Student Changemakers, a staff – student collaboration initiative. As an academic community, we are more aware now than ever of the persistent racial inequalities in the higher education sector. The latest sector research says that work to address this needs to be in partnership with students and with sufficient focus on race as a stand-alone issue (NUS & Universities UK, 2019). LCC has been following […]
Hannah Breslin – LCC Placements Manager. A recent UAL-wide Task and Finish Group, which focussed on exchanges and placement students, has produced new guidance regarding student placement activity. Below is a quick summary of this guidance so that you can find out, at a glance, how best to respond to student queries. My students have […]
LCC staff can learn more about ensuring safety, equity and inclusion in our new ways of working in a new session on Inclusive Remote Teaching with Lucy Panesar and Emily Salines on Thursday 16 April 11-12.30 or watch a recorded version via Collaborate playback. The safety, equity and inclusion of students and staff is at […]