Readiness assessments, portfolio and peer support –a panacea for achieving the EDI agenda and student engagement?: A reflection and preview

Ogechi Ohadomere

doi:10.47408/jldhe.vi26.931

Readiness assessments, portfolio and peer support –a panacea for achieving the EDI agenda and student engagement? A reflection and preview

Ogechi Ohadomere

School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health

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Abstract

Having taught and supported international students in higher education (HE) for several years, I continually observe the uniqueness and dynamism of every new cohort. My role spans being an Induction tutor to offering pastoral support as an Academic and Personal Tutor (APT) Lead, a Module leader, an Academic Conduct Officer, and a Course director. I know you will say – isn’t that so much to do? Well, it is. However, these roles have offered me the opportunity to appreciate the diversity that exists within higher education in the UK and reiterates the need for equality and inclusion within my teaching practice. The Advance HE’s (2020) Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) agenda advocates support for all students irrespective of who they are and where they come from, a call to minimise the widening attainment gap which was actually negatively impacted during the Covid-19 pandemic (Goudeau et al., 2021).

Original language	English
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
Volume	931
Issue number	26
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi26.931
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2023

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©2023The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (JLDHE) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE).

Keywords

higher education
EDI
teaching styles
international students
attainment gap

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