• Supporting Transition through our bespoke Introduction to HE Study Skills Sessions:

    What happens? Between first week and reading week the students engage with work which extends that which they started pre-course and during First Week.  These sessions include input from Learning Services on accessing information and Assistive Technologies.  The course team (Programme Leader & Course Leader) deliver these sessions covering active reading techniques, how to get…

  • Getting Started: Supporting Transition into Higher Education

    If you haven’t started already its time to get planning for September 2019 … For a number of years now we have run this initiative with brilliant results. Students have access to our Getting Started in HE booklet which introduces them to the likely ways of studying at university.  They complete this before they arrive at First…

  • Getting Started student support package

    The development of the ‘Getting Started’ pre-entry support package for students What happens? The Getting Started support package is designed to offer students a seamless transition and a preview into the process of learning at Edge Hill and specifically on their chosen programmes. This is beyond simply pre-course reading, engaging students in becoming familiar with…

  • ‘Transition Days’

    The format and content of ‘Transition Days’ at Levels 4 to 5, and 5 to 6 What happens? The transition days offer students the opportunity to attend sessions, outside of semester one and two, to learn and be informed about the transition they will be making, academically and also personally, between either levels 4-5 or…

  • Personal Development Planning (PDP) ‘Steps to Success’

    The approach to Personal Development Planning (PDP) via the ‘Steps to Success’ model What happens? This model offers a theoretical representation of the PDP when aligned to the University’s employability themes, and the development of the student in relation to their research knowledge and capacity. The PDP is designed to align to the student journey…

  • Supporting transitions

    Activities to support transitions between levels 4-6, and into employment and further study What happens? Discrete sessions dedicated to student transitions that are personalised to reflect the cohort’s and individual students’ previous experiences and achievements as well as feeding forward towards the next level of studies. This feature is fully transferable to any full-time undergraduate…