Supporting Teachers who Support Student Transition

The START project focuses on promoting inclusive excellence in higher education teaching. More specifically, START seeks to equip academics who work with first-year students with competences required to set all students up for success. Those who teach first-year students have a special role to play in making higher education inclusive. Simply granting access to diverse students, and then leaving them to own resources is not enough. Students need to be supported in this transition, so that every student can thrive and succeed. This is especially true for first-generation, international and older students, as well as for all students coming from less represented socio-economic backgrounds. Academics, in turn, need support of faculty developers and institutional authorities in order to develop awareness, skills and competences required to support diverse students in their transition to higher education.

START works to put together professional development resources that can support academics in their efforts to support student transition to higher education.

START aims to promote social inclusion by equipping those teaching first-year courses with the competences necessary to better support all students in their transition to higher education, ensuring students learn how to learn in this new environment and are set up for success.