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1. Enhancing First-Year Undergraduate Academic Experience through Strategic Approaches 2. A forum at Cambridge Universit

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1. Enhancing First-Year Undergraduate Academic Experience through Strategic Approaches 2. A forum at Cambridge Universit

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  1. Intercollegiate Forum: first-year undergraduate academic induction and development

  2. 9.30 Welcome, introductions 9.45 Panel: approaches to academic induction & development • Dr Gillian Fraser (Queens’), A collegiate subject-based programme • Dr Michele Gemelos (Murray Edwards), A whole-college approach • Dr Helen Duncan (ADRC): Co-designing an induction programme • Respondent: Dr Camille Kandiko-Howson (Imperial College, London) 10.45 Refreshments 11.15 Workshop: enhancing the undergraduate first-year academic experience 12.15 Reflections 12.30 Close

  3. Cambridge’s strategic aim ‘… to ensure that a representative cross-section of society is represented within its student body, who can access the same opportunities and quality of experience and can expect the same outcomes in terms of completion, attainment and progression’ Access & Participation Plan 2020-2025

  4. ‘Learning from the sector’ Causes of differential outcomes: for types of explanatory factors • Students’ experience of higher education learning, teaching and assessment (‘curriculum’ in broadest sense’) • Relationships between staff and students and among students • ‘a sense of ‘belonging’ emerged as a key determinant of student outcomes’ • Curricular and social capital • ‘students’ experiences and engagement are related to […] feeling that they ‘belong’ in the institutional environment’ • Psychosocial and identity factors • such as the expectations which academics have about individual students or student groups and that students have about themselves’ Mountford-Zimdars et al, 2017, ‘ What can universities do to support all their students to progress successfully throughout their time at university?’

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