Enhancing Teaching and Learning at Reading

We want you to get the best possible experience during your time at Reading and we do this by constantly working in partnership with you and your Students’ Union to enhance your student experience. We will be making some changes over the coming years, mostly for implementation from the 2024/25 academic year onwards, in response to feedback we have had from our students.

Enhancing your learning experience

Modules and assessment

We’re making some changes to our modules and programmes to make sure that expectations are consistent, and that you have the right amount of choice and a well-designed timetable. Aligned with these changes, we also want to ensure that you have the right amount of assessment, spread out appropriately, and that your assessments allow you to demonstrate your knowledge in a way that is valuable for real life and professional contexts.

From spring 2022, Schools will be reflecting on changes they might make to modules and programmes. As part of their reviews, your School may seek feedback from you about your course.

Technology-Enhanced Learning

We’ve learned a lot from your feedback and our experiences of digital learning, before and during the pandemic and we will continue to promote and support the effective and creative use of technology to enhance teaching and learning. We will prioritise in-person teaching and will develop and integrate purposeful elements of digital learning to enhance and complement this. 

The Academic Year

We are currently consulting on options for the new Academic Year model to be implemented from September 2024, where the academic year structure will change from three 10-week terms to two 15-week semesters. The new structure will improve how courses are organised and assessed, as well as improving opportunities to study abroad or go on international placements.

We will keep these pages updated as our plans progress.