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ACADEMIC STRATEGY
Academic priorities
The College’s previously stated ambition to ‘provide an outstanding and transformative educational experience for students, supporting excellence in research and scholarship’ remains true today. Academic excellence is central to our purpose and the College has much to be proud of in terms of academic achievement. However, standing still is not an option.Without investment in our people and our physical space, we will not maintain our world-class ranking.
For these reasons, our academic strategy incorporates the following key steps:
Improve assistance for tutors to allow them to continue the provision of the highest quality teaching for our students, while enabling them to undertake internationally leading research;
Improve support, both nancial and physical, for all students, and especially postgraduates as we increase their numbers;
Improve skills provision, academic and non- academic, for all students; and
Improve academic space for all.
Tutor support
The tutorial system is one of the jewels in
the crown of the Oxford experience and we
are committed to maintaining this. However, demands made of ourTutorial Fellows have increased considerably in recent years.The challenge is to maintain the undergraduate teaching commitment and contact time, to sustain the research on whichTutorial Fellows’ academic success is measured, and support all the other activities related to academic provision. This can be enormously time-consuming and take tutors away from their core purpose. Our aim, therefore, is to nd additional ways of supporting ourTutorial Fellows so that they can continue to deliver excellent results both through their teaching and their research.
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The tutorial system is one of the jewels in the crown of the Oxford experience and we are committed to maintaining this.
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