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Ensuring excellence in learning & teaching
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Strategic Curriculum Development
2014+
Distinctive teaching at Sheffield
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• The most radical change to our teaching for over 20 years
• Driven by a desire to enhance our students’ learning experience and future professionalism and employability
• Create a distinctive and sought-after Sheffield Graduate who brings high quality attributes and skills to the workplace
• Demonstrates that we proactively take the lead amongst our competitors
• Puts our students’ needs at the heart of what we do
UG students will be…
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• Engaging with academics and their research from the outset of their studies
• Tackling some of the biggest global challenges facing society today
• Working across disciplines to broaden their horizons and subject knowledge
• Developing team working and problem solving skills
This will be delivered through…
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Opportunities to extend academic and personal development through co and extra-curricular activities
Achieve More.Achieve More is your chance to work alongside students from other disciplines developing potential solutions for a range of real-life global problems.
Challenging, fulfilling and highly rewarding, Achieve More is a great way to use your knowledge, acquire new skills, encounter new ideas and to showcase yourself to prospective employers.
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• Communicates going beyond the degree - ‘As a Sheffield Graduate, I’ve achieved more’
• Recognises the achievement attained and provides a sense of the challenges involved
• Provides a useable ‘badge’ for CVs and which employers can understand
• Will be applied to the Faculty specific challenges and projects at each level…
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Faculty of Arts & Humanities
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Faculty of Engineering
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Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health
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Faculty of Science
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Faculty of Social Sciences
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What’s next?• Communicate internally throughout Faculties and
Departments• Develop consistent communication and marketing to
prospective students• Embed the messages across all UG student recruitment
activities • New webpage for students with an overview of Achieve
More• Toolkit to provide guidance for Faculties
• Boilerplate copy (what we say about Achieve More)• Digital assets (logo, templates) for use in print, website,
presentations • Open Days materials