About the Project

Warwick’s Inclusive Education Model aims to ensure that assessment and awarding processes are inclusive and allow every student to succeed, and currently, steps are being taken to explore the BAME awarding gap. However, this is not the only awarding gap. This project aims to investigate and understand the factors that might be influencing the “International Awarding Gap”, or the difference in the proportion of “Home” versus “International” (EU and International) Undergraduate students who are awarded an upper 2nd class or 1st class degree, at the University of Warwick. This project will also take into account the full range of degree outcomes and look at the experience of specific national groups at the University.

Project Aims

This project seeks to investigate this gap, and the factors influencing this across the student lifecycle and experience (e.g. language, induction, pedagogy, assessment, support). It aims to explore the possible reasons for the Awarding Gap, capture student experiences and staff perspectives, identify and share exemplars of good practice and recommend actions that can be taken (both within Warwick, and potentially further afield) to close and ultimately eliminate this gap.

Project Outcomes

The team have recruited their student project officers, who've undertaken a systematic literature review which has been used to draft questions for the project focus groups. These groups, speaking with staff and students across eight partner departments, will be undertaken shortly.

Project Team

Leads: Thomas Greenaway (Student Opportunity)

Leads: Simon Brown (Student Opportunity)

Wang Zi (Internationalisation Co-ordinator, staff researcher)

Clytie Tian (Student Project Officer)

Pawel Plonka (Student Project Officer)