Supporting the Transition Effective support for students in the transition to higher education

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Supporting the TransitionEffective support for
students in the transition to higher education

• Janet Cormack, Nathan Roberts, Andy Lloyd

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Education Strategy

• Cardiff University provides curricula that are
  intellectually stimulating and challenging
  ensuring knowledge can be discovered, applied,
  disseminated and preserved developing creativity
  and innovative thinking and instilling values of
  professionalism and academic integrity. We work
  in partnership with students to enable them to
  become independent and lifelong learners within a
  culture that fosters, promotes and respects
  equality, dignity and diversity.

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(Dis)orientation

• Quality of information about the programme and
  institution
• Learning the institutional discourse and
  fitting in
• Information overload
• Teaching styles, especially the lecture
• Gauging academic standards/overestimating
  abilities

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Discussion School Practices

• Pre-enrolment
• Re-thinking induction
• Assessment