Student Retention
A campaign led by Jamie Smith, Students' Union President
Retention at Anglia Ruskin could be drastically improved. We need to find out why students are not remaining at ARU and if interaction with the Students’ Union aids in student retention and/or success rates. We also want to know how the Students’ Union can support students and the student experience to help students remain at university.
I intend to gather research into student retention and then use this to look at the relationship between retention and the Students’ Union. This research can be used to analyse how we support students, broken down into levels and where we can increase our support.
I will use data such as retention of students, withdrawals, success rates, timeframe of withdrawals, reasons why, the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey, and other useful data.
Teesside Students’ Union released a similar piece of data and the university reacted in a very positive way. For more information on their research click here.
Aims: This campaign aims to answer the question:
Does involvement with the Students' Union impact student retention?