Curricular reform is driven partly by financial pressures but is also an important response to wider calls for more consistency in the student experience, more inclusive teaching and learning and for ‘workplace ready’ graduates. But the financial climate and post-pandemic context makes this a difficult time for HE communities to accept and engage in widescale institutional change. And proposals to change curricula pose potential (or perceived) threats to strong, important disciplinary identities and academic freedom. This project will enable us to work with students and stakeholders to compare approaches to engaging academic communities in this important work, and develop practical guidance and stakeholder engagement resources to facilitate curricular innovation.

The partners engaged in the project are all at varying stages of their curricular reform journey with some well advanced , some beginning their implementation and others at the beginning of their discovery/development phase. Each institutional perspective provides insight to the development of the project resources and outputs and is essential to helping the wider sector understand the lifecycle of a whole-institution curricular review.