Student success can be both personally defined, making it unique for every student, and measured through various metrics of interest to regulators, governments, higher education institutions, and students. It encompasses knowledge, skills, and personal growth, including academic achievement, career development, entrepreneurship, further qualifications, transferable skills, and less tangible concepts such as learning gain, engagement, and social mobility.
Despite this broad definition, maximizing opportunities for student success can be achieved through a strategic focus on ensuring all students have the opportunity to reach their full potential. This includes:
- Supporting students in connecting all their achievements and having them recognised.
- Clearly defining graduate attributes.
- Providing experiential, authentic, and work-based experiences.
- Addressing the student lifecycle: from accessing higher education to providing clear learning goals and effective assessments.
- Fostering skills mastery: equipping students with the skills employers seek, supporting business ventures, and preparing for further study.
- Promoting mattering and belonging: enabling students and staff to feel connected to their campus community.
- Encouraging a global outlook: preparing students to be responsible citizens in an increasingly interconnected world.
- Offering diverse learning options: giving students with increased choices about how, what, when, and where they learn, so they can fit studies around their lives.
In this conference, we are keen to hear examples of practices that have had a measurable impact on student success. The complexity of student success and the challenging higher education landscape means there is no better time to work together, share practice, and learn from our successes and failures to shape the future of teaching in higher education. #TLConf25 brings together global best practice in higher education teaching wherever it’s delivered, including small and specialist providers, teaching focussed institutions, research intensives, college-based higher education, private providers, technical universities or other institutions offering tertiary education.
Conference aims:
The conference will:
- Create space for delegates to engage in creative thinking around teaching and learning towards continuous future enhancement and innovation of the student experience.
- Increase delegates' knowledge and confidence to continue developing and improving their teaching practice and positively impact their students' success.
- Engage with leaders and influencers from across the HE sector who share a passion for teaching and learning in HE.
Teaching and Learning Conference 2025
Student success can be both personally defined, making it unique for every student, and measured through various metrics of interest to regulators, governments, higher education institutions, and students. It encompasses knowledge, skills, and personal growth, including academic achievement, career development, entrepreneurship, further qualifications, transferable skills, and less tangible concepts such as learning gain, engagement, and social mobility.
Despite this broad definition, maximizing opportunities for student success can be achieved through a strategic focus on ensuring all students have the opportunity to reach their full potential. This includes:
- Supporting students in connecting all their achievements and having them recognised.
- Clearly defining graduate attributes.
- Providing experiential, authentic, and work-based experiences.
- Addressing the student lifecycle: from accessing higher education to providing clear learning goals and effective assessments.
- Fostering skills mastery: equipping students with the skills employers seek, supporting business ventures, and preparing for further study.
- Promoting mattering and belonging: enabling students and staff to feel connected to their campus community.
- Encouraging a global outlook: preparing students to be responsible citizens in an increasingly interconnected world.
- Offering diverse learning options: giving students with increased choices about how, what, when, and where they learn, so they can fit studies around their lives.
In this conference, we are keen to hear examples of practices that have had a measurable impact on student success. The complexity of student success and the challenging higher education landscape means there is no better time to work together, share practice, and learn from our successes and failures to shape the future of teaching in higher education. #TLConf25 brings together global best practice in higher education teaching wherever it’s delivered, including small and specialist providers, teaching focussed institutions, research intensives, college-based higher education, private providers, technical universities or other institutions offering tertiary education.
Conference aims:
The conference will:
- Create space for delegates to engage in creative thinking around teaching and learning towards continuous future enhancement and innovation of the student experience.
- Increase delegates' knowledge and confidence to continue developing and improving their teaching practice and positively impact their students' success.
- Engage with leaders and influencers from across the HE sector who share a passion for teaching and learning in HE.