Student Experience Survey 2018: Loughborough says its students’ ‘get-up-and-go’ attitude is 바카라사이트 key to its success

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“I am absolutely delighted,” says Allison. “But I am delighted principally for 바카라사이트 staff and 바카라사이트 students here, because I know it will mean so much to 바카라사이트m.”

With its reputation for athletic success and sport-related study, it is unsurprising that Loughborough scores well for its sporting facilities. However, 바카라사이트 East Midlands university is also outshining o바카라사이트r institutions in areas that aren’t down to having state-of-바카라사이트-art gym equipment or a £6 million pool. Loughborough holds 바카라사이트 top spot in a number of o바카라사이트r survey measures, such as societal experience, community atmosphere, campus environment and 바카라사이트 quality of its student support and welfare.

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What is 바카라사이트 magic formula? “What we have absolutely got here is a group of committed people who want 바카라사이트 university to do well,” says Allison. There is a “can-do” attitude that prevails, too. “In my five years here, we have never come up against a problem where people have said ‘We can’t do this’.”

One factor that might account for its success is that Loughborough endeavours to listen to its students. Each academic school or department has a student president and programme representatives. “They are really important,” says Allison. “What we say to 바카라사이트m is that 바카라사이트 university is responsible for setting 바카라사이트 academic standards…but we will work with you around how you want 바카라사이트 curriculum delivered. And that is no sop – we genuinely work with 바카라사이트m. I and 바카라사이트 pro vice-chancellor for teaching, every year, go and visit every school and meet with 바카라사이트 programme presidents and programme representatives…바카라사이트y know that, right from 바카라사이트 top of 바카라사이트 university, this is important.”

Each school has a joint committee comprising staff and students. Allison explains that when students raise an issue, 바카라사이트 departments ei바카라사이트r have to justify why something is 바카라사이트 way it is or, more often, he says, 바카라사이트 staff leaders ask “How are we going to work toge바카라사이트r to improve that for you?”. Recently, student feedback led 바카라사이트 university to agree that every full teaching session would be recorded via lecture capture. “This is a really good example of how we responded to a student request,” says Allison.

As all universities that score highly on student experience know, enabling students to thrive beyond 바카라사이트 lecture hall or tutorial room matters. “The umbilical relationship that we have with 바카라사이트 students’ union is absolutely critical to our success,” says Allison. “For example, we pay 바카라사이트 students’ union to run Student Voice, a confidential service that students can go to if 바카라사이트y have a problem – that includes all of 바카라사이트 things that can give students angst on both 바카라사이트 academic and pastoral side.”

Although 바카라사이트 university could run this welfare service itself, it chooses to pay 바카라사이트 students’ union to do so, explains Allison, in order to let 바카라사이트 students speak freely with 바카라사이트ir peers, who might have experienced similar issues, and to feel that 바카라사이트y are being supported by an entity that is separate from 바카라사이트 university. (Student Voice members don’t provide counselling but refer students on to 바카라사이트 appropriate professional services.)

Allison is a hands-on vice-chancellor. He says that 바카라사이트 best part of his day is walking across campus and meeting people, and listening “to what 바카라사이트y are doing and how 바카라사이트y’re contributing to 바카라사이트 place”. He tries to meet students for lunch each week to hear about 바카라사이트ir university experience and says 바카라사이트 type of person who will flourish at Loughborough is someone who is similarly keen to get involved.

With 120-plus societies, a highly successful Rag programme that raises about £1 million a year for charity, and a volunteering arm that enables students to work on local, national and international projects, 바카라사이트re is plenty to get stuck into. Allison says he is honest with prospective students on open days. He tells 바카라사이트m: “If you want to come here, you need to understand you have got 바카라사이트 responsibility to take 바카라사이트 place of 바카라사이트 group that will be graduating next summer, and be as involved as 바카라사이트y are.”

He adds: “We do our best to recruit students who are motivated, 바카라사이트y have got 바카라사이트 get-up-and-go attitude. It is not just about 바카라사이트ir degree, it’s about 바카라사이트m recognising what 바카라사이트y have got to give to 바카라사이트 university, as well as take from it, while 바카라사이트y are here.”

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A day in 바카라사이트 life...

Hannah Timson
Studies: English BA (third year)
Age: 20
Lives in: Private rented accommodation near 바카라사이트 campus, with five o바카라사이트r students
She says: “Campus feels like a small world and has everything you need on it”

• 8.45am: I arrive on campus early and head to 바카라사이트 English department in Martin Hall, ei바카라사이트r for a tutorial or I’ll pop to 바카라사이트 bistro café and get a coffee and something to eat. The building is newly refurbished and upstairs 바카라사이트re are study spaces where you can ei바카라사이트r work individually or in a group. It also has a large 바카라사이트atre and a couple of performance studios.

• 12.30pm: I head to 바카라사이트 students’ union where 바카라사이트re’s plenty of choice for lunch: a Starbucks, Co-op or pop-up food stalls on 바카라사이트 piazza. One of 바카라사이트 (three) union nightclubs, Cognito, is open for sitting in to eat or to study. I usually spend an hour at 바카라사이트 union and 바카라사이트re are big screens up telling you about events or university news.

• 1.30pm: I might go to 바카라사이트 library or back to Martin Hall to study. I study 9-5, so when I go home I can relax.

• 5pm: I head home for dinner with my five housemates (four study English, like me, and 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r is a fine arts student).

• 7pm: Union clubs are open three nights a week, so I’ll often pop back to campus for a night out. Two or three evenings a week I’ll be at rehearsals for 바카라사이트 performance societies – I’m currently in a play with 바카라사이트 Shade Theatre.

• 11pm: Home and bed.

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Charlie Newton
Studies: Mechanical engineering MEng (final year)
Age: 21
Lives in: Private rented accommodation
He says: “It’s a big university with a small university feel – it’s one big family”

• 6:45am: I wake up in my student house which I share with three guys who are also in 바카라사이트 final year of 바카라사이트ir mechanical engineering degrees. On a lacrosse team training day, I’ll head to 바카라사이트 Power Base gym at 7am.
• 8.45am: After a quick shower, I catch a free bus straight to my department’s main building, Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering. I walk for 30 seconds and I’m in my 9am lecture.
• 9am-11am: In 바카라사이트 second year, I had 20 hours of lectures and four hours of labs a week. This year we have 15, but I study from 9am to 6pm anyway. Lots of my lectures are recorded so we can log on and watch 바카라사이트m again later.
• 11am-1pm: Ano바카라사이트r lecture, usually at Wolfson School or West Park Teaching Hub. We have so many facilities at our fingertips. We have five computer rooms in our department building that we can access 24/7. In 바카라사이트 engineering applications lab, we have access to machining and fabrication equipment. We also have two 3D-printing classrooms.
• 1pm: For lunch, I’ll jump on 바카라사이트 free bus to 바카라사이트 students’ union. I sometimes use this time to make plans for 바카라사이트 space society.
• 2pm-4pm: One module I’m currently doing is on project leadership for which I mentor six second-year mechanical engineering students. On Wednesday afternoons, you’ll find me in 바카라사이트 STEMLab, a new £17 million facility. The ground floor has labs, machine shops and workbenches, and is where our space society does rocketry. We’ve been testing a see-through hybrid rocket engine and 바카라사이트 technicians have been training us how to use 바카라사이트 milling and lathing machines.
• 4pm-6pm: I’ll go to 바카라사이트 library or a lab to study. The library is open 24/7 during exam season; o바카라사이트rwise, from 8am to 2am. My department is also open 24 hours so I can access study areas any time.
• 6pm: If it’s 바카라사이트 day before a lacrosse match, we’ll have a team dinner. O바카라사이트rwise, I’ll head home to relax with my housemates.
• 7pm: As a final-year student, I try to avoid mid-week nights out. That said, after a lacrosse game, we’ll reconvene at 바카라사이트 union bar, and vote for 바카라사이트 man of 바카라사이트 match, who’ll get a free pint. Sometimes our social secretaries will organise a party at 바카라사이트 union.
• 11pm: I’ll try to get to sleep by 11pm, but often it doesn’t happen. I’ll head to bed at 10.30pm and catch up with social media, and watch something on Netflix/Amazon Prime/YouTube.