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Catering to a multi-faceted students consume has a profound effect on

student experience
stress levels, anxiety and even happiness in both
the long term and short term. Regardless of
experience, ambitions and lifestyle preferences,
What are the steps we take to facilitate an optimal experience economy? The the vast majority of students would agree that a
Russell Partnerships Professor David Russell and Charlotte Harbour explain all university experience low in stress, anxiety and

T
he student experience is inherently
unique and individualised, based
upon a range of extraneous
variables relative to academic and
personal life. A positive student experience is a
subjective and highly personal conclusion that
will be influenced by individual expectations,
experiences and
ambitions. As educators, As research continues to evolve, we are seeing more
there is further opportunity to facilitate and
accelerate this success potential.
Following this understanding, the second
step in facilitating achievement is by ensuring
students are prepared for their personal
journeys in the weeks before the beginning
of their university experience. An efficient,
depression is positive. As research continues
to evolve, we are seeing more evidence that
links diet with stress, academic achievement,
motivation and stable energy levels all
fundamental factors for optimising the student
experience. As we now know that optimum
physical and mental health can be supported
through a lifestyle rich in unrefined, low
glycemic load (GL)
wholefoods such as

evidence that links diet with stress, academic achievement,

influencers and facilitators
of this experience
outcome, we need to motivation and stable energy levels all fundamental factors
ensure the provision of
opportunities that will
for optimising the student experience"
enable students to drive their own student
experience towards that of personal success and
fulfilment. So, in practical terms what are the
steps we take to facilitate an optimal experience
economy? Firstly, we must understand that
students are responsible for their own happiness
and primary success within the campus
environment; they will have their own personal
motivations and ambitions ranging from
academic prestige to social integration or self-
effective and online induction system augments
optimum alignment and a universally
positive pre-arrival experience. Furthermore,
contemporary online induction has been
shown to reduce withdrawal rates in the first
12 weeks by up to 50%. Ensuring students are
physically, mentally and emotionally prepared
from the outset will provide clarity and evoke
feelings of readiness what better way to start
the semester? Visit the Stems by RP website for
vegetables, oily fish,
lean meats, unrefined
fats, low GL fruits
and wholegrains, we
can implement F&B
offers into university campus outlets to provide
our students with opportunities to nourish
themselves and maximise their potential in
the pursuit of their own successful student
experience.
Delivering a positive student experience is
multi-faceted, and will be unique to each and
every individual. Let us embrace the variety
of students that we invite to our institutions,
and enable their diverse ideations of the ideal
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development and adventure. These motivations more information. student experience through readiness activities
are at the core of a positive student experience, Thirdly, and perhaps less obviously, research and optimisation of physical and mental health
and through external supplementary factors has confirmed time-and-time again that what through food and beverage. UB

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