Improving Student Retention

Improving Student Retention

Dr Helen Pierce together with Dr Lisa Collinson and Dr Heidi Mehrkens from the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy tell us about the development and implementation of new methods of improving student retention.

During the 2016-17 academic session, History staff worked together to try to improve Level 1 retention in the short-term, and to develop methods of further improving that retention in the longer term. It had been noted that within DHP, History had a particularly high number of students (10.9% in 2015-16, or 17 students) dropping out at Level 1.