At GBS, we have a widening participation agenda that is clear to all of our stakeholders from the outset: we aspire to widen access to education for those learners who wish to return to education after a long break away from education, or who believe that they could never obtain a degree, or who need help and support in the form of a foundation year before they are suitably equipped to undertake a degree programme. The institutional mission of our business is: ‘To Transform Lives through Education that Makes a Fundamental Difference to Living Standards and Access to Learning’.
In order to do this, a large focus of what we do as an organisation involves ensuring that our teaching standards are of the highest quality that they can be. Our staff undertake two teaching observations in the academic year, attend a weekly online teaching enhancement forum to discuss and present work on teaching and learning, as well as engaging with best practice across the sector as shared by external speakers and our own staff with relevant expertise and which occur at regular intervals throughout the year.
