Learning and Teaching
The University's courses have
continued to win praise in external reviews, most recently within Social
Sciences and Humanities and Geography
and Environmental Science. We have continued to develop 'Excellence
Plus', a unique approach to teaching and learning, across the University
with the aim of providing our students with both subject-specific and
transferable skills, and we have invested £168,000 over two years in support
of innovative projects to promote student retention and facilitate innovative
learning. Successful projects have included academic and study skills
programmes, the appointment of specialist support staff, new computer-based
packages to support the teaching of numerical and statistical methods,
and writing, grammatical and statistical skills workshops.
Our Careers Service has also
extended their support to students with the development of a new, award-winning,
needs-based website offering jobs information and careers advice to graduates
and students around the clock (http://www.careers.brad.ac.uk).
 The
academic staff has responded warmly to the changing educational agenda,
and more than a fifth of the academic teaching staff at the University
have joined The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education,
double the previous year's total. Allied to this, the Chancellor's Award
for Distinguished Teaching sought to recognise the achievement of academic
staff who have made a significant contribution to teaching. Dr Liz Kelly
of the School of Pharmacy (pictured
right) was presented with this year's award in recognition of her high
professional standards, energy and dedication to learning and teaching.
The University has also continued
to achieve considerable external recognition of its high standards. Bradford
University School of Management was placed in
the top 15 business schools in the UK in the Financial Times ranking and
appeared in the top 100 in the world as well as the top 10 in the UK for
its full-time MBA programme. The School was also successfully reassessed
for the prestigious EQUIS accreditation, the leading international system
of quality assessment among business institutions, held by only 61 business
schools across Europe and the rest of the world.
The School
of Health Studies, alongside maintaining its enviable 100% graduate
employment rate across nursing, physiotherapy, and radiography, launched
the UK's first MSc in Dementia
Care, which has proved extremely popular. Additionally, the University
secured Regional Partnership status with the National Health Service University
in conjunction with the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University,
the University of Huddersfield and York St. John College.
Within the School
of Life Sciences, the BSc (Hons) in Clinical Sciences, developed with
the School of Health Studies and the University
of Leeds, exceeded all expectations in terms of recruitment and has provided
a blueprint for widening participation good practice, which is being closely
watched by others in the sector.
New course developments in
Foundation Degrees and
in cutting-edge areas such as Animatronics
have also enabled the University to stay at the forefront of new learning
and teaching opportunities.
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