Supporting More Students

Higher education in the UK has in the past been characterised by remarkably low student drop-out and failure rates. As student numbers have increased and personal tutor systems have collapsed under the strain, so student progress has slowed and drop-out and failure have increased. Poorly prepared students have lacked adequate support to cope with increasingly independent learning and have sometimes felt socially isolated and inadequately guided. This important new book provides a range of practical strategies for supporting more students within tight resource constraints, based on new practice at many institutions.The use of profiling to provide an overview of the development of students' transferable skills. Each chapter contains concrete examples illustrating best practice. Supporting More Students is the sixth in a series of publications in the Teaching More Students series written to help teachers to cope with larger classes and resource constraints. Over 35,000 copies have been sold worldwide.

Contents

0. Introduction
1. Developing personal tutor systems
2. Helping students to support each other
3. Providing support through documentation
4. Developing independent learning skills
5. Targeting support for specific students
6. Supervising independent learning
7. Providing non-academic support