LUiL Q&A with Professor Zoe Radnor (Part 2)
Zoe Radnor is Associate Dean for teaching for Loughborough University in London
Q4: What will Loughborough University make the programmes offered in London different to other providers?
A4: We will focus on three elements. Firstly, all study will be interdisciplinary, so even if you’re talking a single subject programme, you will have to do a second complementary subject, providing you with exposure to other disciplines. For example, if you’re taking a programme aimed at entering the Media and Creative Industries, you will have the option to study an introduction module in Entrepreneurship, Digital Technologies or Design Management. There will be a whole suite of programmes to choose from that complement each other and ensure cohesion throughout a student’s programme of study. All programmes will also feature an integrated group project that will give students opportunity to work with peers in their own subject discipline, and also with those across different disciplines.
Secondly, there will be a very strong enterprise element to all our programmes. Being market driven in our programme development, we work closely with insudtry and will offer the students visiting speakers, company visits, associated lecturers with experience industry and access to small, large, public, private, voluntary and for profit enterprise organisations - all of which will help students to develop employability skills.
The final element we offer is a full campus experience. Many London based universities have teaching centres located in the centre of London in office buildings. On the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, we can offer not only greener surrounding but world-class sporting and entertainment venues and facilities with incubation space and learning resources.
The six institutes to open at LUiL in September 2015 are:
Design Innovation
Digital Technologies
Enterprise Development & Entrepreneurship
Sport Business
Media & Creative Industries
Virtual Engineering
More information is at www.lborolondon.ac.uk.
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