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Teaching and learning excellence at Manchester

Our award-winning, research-enhanced approach creates life-changing student experiences, inspires lifelong learning and shapes exceptional graduate outcomes for global citizens of the future.

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Introduction

Excelling at Manchester

We foster a culture of excellence – for academics and students alike.

With a sharp focus on teaching quality, we offer transformative student experiences to develop the global leaders of tomorrow. We're removing barriers to learning, placing wellbeing front and centre, and leading the way in flexible, lifelong learning.

Discover how we're supporting our teaching staff and students to realise their full potential.

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Teaching quality

Research-enhanced teaching and learning

We promote teaching leadership and excellence at every level.

Our Institute of Teaching and Learning supports teaching quality, embraces innovative methods of delivery, and rewards excellence. All teachers – from those starting their careers to our leaders in teaching and learning – benefit from a continuum of support.

We encourage creative approaches to curricula and assessment, and introduce the latest disciplinary and interdisciplinary research into our programmes. Our staff are recognised for their incredible work and supported in their development, through Advance HE-accredited schemes and wider provision at School, Faculty, and cross-University levels.

Leadership in Education Awards Programme

LEAP supports teachers in documenting and evidencing their teaching excellence – and provides an opportunity for a formal, national qualification.

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National Teaching Fellows

We nominate and support candidates for this prestigious annual award scheme, administered externally by Advance HE to promote and raise the profile of teaching excellence.

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New Academics Programme

This programme forms part of a University-wide approach to support new academics and provide staff with the skills needed to carry out research and teaching and learning duties at the highest level.

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Institute of Teaching and Learning

Our pioneering Institute of Teaching and Learning drives and celebrates the quality of our teaching.

It steers our ongoing push for improvement, embracing new ideas and leading on strategic projects to deliver excellence at all levels.

These include Institute Fellowships, co-creation, teaching development partnerships, and experimental teaching opportunities – with student partners providing real-time feedback.

Find out more about the Institute of Teaching and Learning

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An education for global leadership

We prepare future leaders for a challenging, ever-changing world.

The University of Manchester is a global institution. Our graduates have a distinctive education and learn in a supportive, inclusive environment that encourages them to aim high, take intellectual risks, and develop sustainable solutions to problems both local and global.

Students have opportunities to engage in the biggest social, economic, and environmental questions facing the world – through bold, action-led initiatives tailored to individual needs.

Stellify

Our Stellify programme continues to evolve, providing a wealth of academic and co-curricular activities that enable our students to shine bright.

Students undertake sustainability challenges, volunteer for the benefit of the wider community, take up leadership roles, and more.

Find out more about Stellify

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Ethical Grand Challenges

These challenges inspire students to create a more sustainable world, learn how to tackle social injustices and begin to navigate ethical dilemmas in the workplace.

Online and face-to-face activities give students the tools they need to become socially responsible graduates.

Find out more about our Ethical Grand Challenges

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Student experience

Transformative experiences

We offer life-changing experiences to encourage lifelong learning.

Delivering research-driven and personalised teaching, we work in partnership with students to build unique experiences in a framework of excellence, inclusivity, and social responsibility – promoting a true sense of belonging.

Our outcomes-based curricula are increasingly informed by business, industry and research reflecting the student voice, and our digital and blended experiences will allow flexible learning both on and off campus.

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Feedback and improvement

Working in partnership with our students, we co-create tailored Student Experience Action Plans, enlivened by research and guided by critical review.

We ensure our students have a voice and, together, we find solutions to improve provision. Initiatives include:

We invite final-year undergraduates to provide feedback on their programme of study – including the teaching and learning aspects of the student experience – through the National Student Survey (NSS).

At Manchester, our NSS scores for learning resources, learning community, and learning opportunities continue to climb.

Through our emerging Student Survey Strategy we will streamline and maximise our methods for gathering and listening to the student voice, providing insight at every stage of the student journey – including the piloting of live, real-time student feedback.

Unit surveys are an important part of our commitment to listen to students, and to deliver improvements in student satisfaction.

We invite students to have their say – about how and what they are being taught.

Student outcomes

A personalised journey

We enable progression to a highly skilled future.

Our students develop the skills, confidence and awareness to thrive in a challenging world and uncertain future, becoming the leaders of tomorrow and driving the change we want to see – both globally and locally.

We are discovering how learning analytics will enable our students of the future to visualise and track their progress, set goals, and evaluate their academic development – as well as manage their own motivation for learning.

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Lifting barriers to learning

We're removing hurdles to learning, improving access to the University and ensuring student success and progression, regardless of background or identity.

Challenging targets have been set in our Access and Participation Plan, and our Student Success Strategy is designed to enable all students to reach their full potential.

We will tackle awarding gaps and continue to encourage progression to employment and further study for all.

Realising your potential

In a city of innovation, we invite our students to embrace its pioneering spirit.

Our students are provided with tools and opportunities that promote creativity, digital literacy, social responsibility, and entrepreneurship – enabling them to reach their full potential, optimise their employability and develop the distinctive attributes of a Manchester graduate.

We strive, always, to offer a sense of community and belonging, with happiness and wellbeing intrinsic to both.

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Welcome to Belonging

We provide lots of information and resources to make sure our students feel a real sense of belonging when starting their academic studies.

Find out more about welcome

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Mental health support and harm reduction

We are expanding student support services, such as the Greater Manchester Mental Health Hub, and progressing our actions around harm reduction.

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Work experience opportunities

Our students can benefit hugely and broaden their horizons through the great range of transformational work experience opportunities we offer.

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University College for Interdisciplinary Learning

Through UCIL we inspire and challenge our students to study across disciplinary boundaries and beyond their main subject.

Find out more about UCIL

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Flexible learning

Leading the way

We’re giving our students increased flexibility over the pace, place and mode of their study.

The way students learn fits their needs and interests – whether joining us after school, later in their careers, on-campus or online.

We will ensure all teaching is inclusive, accessible and international, preparing graduates for an increasingly digital world that demands agility, creativity, and digital proficiency.

We’re exploring how digital materials can best augment in-person study: developing student skills, enhancing our learning tools, supporting teaching staff with digital learning experts, and providing new spaces to innovate and collaborate.

Find out more about flexible learning at Manchester.

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Blended, flexible and accessible

Our approach has been developed in partnership with our students and staff. Changes that have already been made include:

  • expanding the digitised resources available to students;
  • introducing new ways to collaborate with peers and teaching staff online, such as annotating documents together;
  • employing more eLearning experts to create captivating learning experiences;
  • launching a new innovation space by the end of 2022, where staff and students can trial new ways of teaching and learning;
  • exploring new pathways into higher education, such as short courses stacked together to build a full degree on a flexible timeline; and
  • creating global partnerships to enable learning across boundaries.

News

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Manchester remains favourite university of UK’s top employers

The University has been the most targeted by the UK’s top 100 recruiters for two years running, according to High Fliers Research.

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100 Black British students to have university places funded

More than 100 financially disadvantaged Black British students are to have their university tuition fees fully funded by The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation.

April Mcmahon

The hype and reality of ChatGPT

There is a lot of noise around ChatGPT. AI tools of this sort are becoming more mainstream; and alongside the challenges they may present for some aspects of our teaching and assessment, they also bring opportunities.

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Ofsted praise for ABMS apprenticeship programme

Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) has received a positive Ofsted report for its Executive Education Senior Leadership Apprenticeship, commending its “ambitious curriculum”.

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Manchester welcomes first Humanitarian Scholarship students

The University has held an event to welcome recipients of its new scholarships for students fleeing conflict and persecution.

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Jeffrey Boakye joins The University of Manchester

Author, broadcaster and journalist Jeffrey Boakye arrives as a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Manchester Institute of Education.

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Our future

Discover the future of teaching and learning at Manchester.

Download plan (6.42 MB) : our future

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