Meeting with Faculty, School and Student Recruitment reps who work with students
22/07
Terminology and requirements
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Terminology – suggested glossary as a solution “Get people used to the terminology that we use” – said this is ‘absolutely vital’. (Anne unsure about glossary as a solution)
General – Some kind of fast introduction to our navigation (location and purpose of main sections) or basic terminology could be useful.
Richard – terminology: they talk about ‘degrees’ when in schools.
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Melissa – the units within a school are called 'programmes' within FHSS (maybe other faculties?). Were previously called 'departments'
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Craig - Engineering try to give all students an exist exit plan if they fail the courses required to proceed with a BE (and most have to convert to a BSc or information systems in a BCom)
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General – degree examples: students are likely to just choose from the provided examples.
General – If the 'configuration' starts to be too complex (lot of options, exceptions, rules, variations etc.), 'contact a support/advisor' CTA could be shown.
Craig – need to tell school leavers that they need NCEA M or E for certain courses – A isn't enough.
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