1. Student experience and engagement

Work in 2019/20 will include:

• Establish an effective communications network across academic departments and professional support services in relation to student opportunities, changes in policy, survey and feedback activity, and other improvements in teaching and learning.
• The University and SU to improve the academic representation system in collaboration, consultation and communication with departments.
• Development of approaches that engender greater student engagement with learning, such as using the principles of effective learning communities and peer mentoring.

2. Internationalisation

Work in 2019/20 will include:

• Formulate and consult on education internationalisation strategy.
• Double the number of students participating in Intercultural Learning in 2019/20.
• Develop EUtopia education package, including diverse and innovative mobility opportunities.

3. Postgraduate community and engagement

Work in 2019/20 will include:

• Doctoral College to ensure PGRs are given full consideration in developing all University strategies, including education, research, recruitment, and internationalisation.
• Doctoral College to deliver improved support to PGRs including sick pay, increased scholarships, skills development, and support for CDTs.
• PGT strategy working group to develop a strategy for approval in 2019/20 to address PGT student experience and appropriate changes in BGS and Faculty Education Committee terms of reference.

4. SPI

Work in 2019/20 will include:

• SPI projects to be delivered in 2019/20, include: Mitigating Circumstances, Module Approval, Module Catalogue, Course Approval, Student Mobility Workflow, Universal Admissions (Direct Entry), Student Finance Management.
• SPI continues work towards delivery of Module Selection, Exam Board processes, and PGR examination workflows.
• Learner Analytics accelerated into development phase (including components marks management and simplified and robust attendance monitoring) for progressing work on continuation, retention and attainment for WP and outstanding outcomes for all students.

5. Review of Assessment

Work in 2019/20 will include:

• Commence implementation of outcomes from Review of Assessment relating to assessment strategies and continue with implementation work on mitigating circumstances.
• Continue work on examination board operations and develop policy and guidance.
• Review regulatory framework and make appropriate changes relating to assessment regulations.

6. Curriculum development

Work in 2019/20 will include:

• Development of central resources for supporting departmental curricula reform to align with new credit framework and assessment strategies, promote interdisciplinarity, embed employability and skills, and ensure inclusivity.
• Review credit and module framework and its application to postgraduate taught courses.
• Initiate University-wide consultation on timing of examinations and the potential for considering the overall shape of the academic year.

7. Employability Strategy

Work in 2019/20 will include:

• Delivery of a new central campus Student Opportunity Hub, acting as the focal point for the delivery of co-curricular opportunities and services to students.
• Development of a Placement-Learning team to provide institutional support for academic departments to embed placement learning and source placement opportunities for students.
• Define ‘Warwick Core Skills’, consult with departments and students, improve communication and governance of skills provision, and create a central portal to demonstrate the full skills offer.

8. TEF Subject-Level

Work in 2019/20 will include:

• Build on the experience of TEF mock exercise to share best practice in preparing submissions and develop further central capacity for provision of data, departmental TEF leadership, and appropriate student participation.
• TEG follow-up on measures for improvement of TEF metrics, including peer dialogue on teaching, module evaluations, personal tutoring, Talis Aspire reading lists.
• Progress work on continuation rates, including improving quality of data and availability, removing structural barriers to continuation through curricula design, improving interventions to support staff and students and focus on outstanding outcomes for all students.

9. Widening Participation Strategy

Work in 2019/20 will include:

• Focus on meeting OfS Access and Participation Plan (APP) targets and improving TEF split metrics through the TEG process to develop and share best practice on WP.
• Warwick Scholars further developed as sector-leading programme and work with departments and faculties to ensure embedding and optimisation.
• Development of inclusive pedagogic and experiential teaching and learning methodologies to close attainment gaps—including Education Executive and SU co-development of Decolonising Curriculum initiative.

10. Alternative Pathways

We will continue to develop an institution-wide approach to support the growth and enhancement of Degree Apprenticeships (DA), working with departments, employers and learners to share good practice and develop innovative, accessible and high quality programmes in industrial and professional curriculum areas.

Work in 2019/20 will include:

• Continue to grow and enhance work-based learning and degree apprenticeship provision, ensuring successful outcomes and experiences for all learners.
• Develop a framework for collaborative provision to enable managed, targeted and strategic growth.
• Establish a cross-university working group to survey the external landscape and to explore strategic opportunities to develop new alternative, flexible, and online provision.