When the Princess of Wales visited NTU back in the autumn, she participated in a new starter “Welcome Workshop.”
Co-designed and co-delivered with student mentors – and using the Grit approach – these sessions encourage new students to share experiences and expectations, to build confidence, proactively manage their wellbeing and raise awareness of the wide range of support networks available to them.
And it was in the workshop that we found out how Kate began her journey from undergrad to future Queen, took up photography at university and found the community and “sense of belonging” that John Blake recently noted as being relevant to many elements of the OfS Equality of Opportunity Register.
Welcome Workshops are a central part of NTU’s programme of co-curricular events for new students. This programme supports students’ physical, emotional, and academic transition into university.
Transition plays an important part in shaping overall outcomes, particularly for students from under-represented backgrounds who have often described new educational spaces as alien and hostile. Transition is the starting point in developing so many of the needs that student success is built upon.
