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25 September 2025
3 minutes to readEmbedding Skills – A Disciplinary Challenge
The Exeter Skills Framework challenges us to surface the skills required to achieve on our programmes, as well as presenting an opportunity to develop a curriculum that marries disciplinary rigour with the development of transferrable skills designed to launch students into wide-ranging futures. In this blog, Associate Professor Annabel Watson reports on…
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16 September 2025
4 minutes to readBreaking Barriers, Building Leaders: Insights from the new “Breaking Barriers: Climate Leadership & You” Project
A transformative project for equitable climate leadership, Breaking Barriers: Climate Leadership & You centres the voices and leadership of Global Majority and under-represented communities. This pioneering initiative equips changemakers to become more confident, conscious climate leaders, shaping just and inclusive futures across key areas of climate and sustainability, including research, international diplomacy,…
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4 September 2025
3 minutes to readMaking It Matter: Why Process, Creativity and Co-Creation Belong at the Heart of Education
We talk about making sense of things. About making a life. Making friends. Sometimes, even making do. We make amends. We make time. We make a point—or a complaint. We make an effort. We make progress. We make history. We make plans. And when things don’t go to plan, we make something…
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10 July 2025
6 minutes to readFuture-Proof Learning: A curriculum centred on transferable skills
Most STEM programmes require high standards of proficiency in maths at undergraduate level and failure to meet sufficiently high grades in maths is a key reason for students not achieving an undergraduate place. In response to Exeter’s commitment to Widening Participation, in 2021, the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy (former CEMPS)…
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13 June 2025
4 minutes to readLet’s make some CAOS! The use of drama-based pedagogies in Higher Education.
How can we ensure that different standpoints, particularly those often silenced and neglected, are included and that students play an active role in making their experience of learning truly memorable and transformative? CAOS – CAmpus On Stage builds on these questions and recent calls to develop appropriate pedagogical tools to teach complex…
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1 May 2024
3 minutes to readSupporting students with public speaking anxiety in a seminar room
What is public speaking anxiety, and how does it affect university students? According to some studies, approximately 10 % of the students at UK universities acknowledge that they struggle with severe social anxiety, and the number of students with a milder form of a fear of oral assessment and public speaking before…
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