decisions about how much activity to require for completion of the Award and the timescale. Our
Award therefore includes participation in our academic personal tutoring arrangements, a
minimum of 3 activities from a comprehensive list of both curricular and co curricula opportunities
and writing a reflection on each activity in the e-portfolio. Crucial to our thinking was both the
promotion of the variety of opportunities available including obtaining practical experience,
leadership skills, enterprise abilities and cultural awareness and the development of the students’
ability to reflect on the value of participating in these. Students are encouraged to register on the
Award when they start with us and complete it over their time here.
After a period of intense effort over the summer, working with a small team of staff from
Employability and Enterprise and liaison with academic and professional departments, pulling
together all the activities, marketing and processes to support the Award, we launched in
September 2013 with a target of achieving 600 registrations in its first year across all
undergraduates. In fact we exceeded this target by achieving almost 950 registrations, along with
over 100 of our final year students completing the award (roughly a third of the final year students
who were registered on the award). This year we have further extended t