At ASU London the nature of what we deliver is underpinned by equality, diversity and inclusion. As a new institute we are disruptive in both our pedagogy and employment approach and know it is vital that we embrace different ideas, views and perspectives across our student and staff community.
At ASU London, you will experience a different kind of education. Forget traditional lecture halls – our approach to learning is hands-on, interactive, and project-based. You’ll solve real-world challenges from day one, working collaboratively in a creative and inclusive environment.
Our campus building is accessed via a wide, level path leading from Quebec Way. All the routes are either step-free, level, or gently-sloping. Our ground level reception area is easy to enter and has openable doorways and a weather-protecting canopy. Inside the building, all furniture has been chosen for flexibility and our teaching and learning spaces have at least one height adjustable bench to accommodate the needs of all users.
Each floor of our campus contains a wheelchair accessible toilet, and there is also a shower room on the ground floor. Designed for wheelchair users, the shower room has a seat and grab rails. All campus facilities are equipped with emergency call cords and have visual and audible signals in case of an emergency. The lift is wheelchair accessible and serves every part of the building.
At ASU London, our digital campus is built using Microsoft 365 to make sure that all our learning content is fully accessible across a variety of devices. Microsoft products work seamlessly with assistive technologies like screen readers, and captions or transcripts can be provided with video and audio content.
Our design approach ensures that our online learning material is broken up into uncluttered, manageable chunks. Learners can also customise the look and feel of the learning experience to meet their individual needs. With a range of different content types, including videos, podcasts, and interactive case studies, our students have the option to learn theory through varied representations. We continually improve our digital learning material in response to new technology and feedback from students.
Successful teaching and learning depends on making sure our campus community is creative, industrious and inclusive. We blend online study with face-to-face classes, where students are not seen as passive recipients of lectures. Instead, they’re members of a wider learning community and work together on projects from day one. Our teaching staff come from different backgrounds in education, engineering, architecture, innovation and design.
Students need opportunities to practice, play, make and break stuff and, sometimes, to fail safely. But we’re operating in a world where these opportunities are not the same for everyone. So, our curriculum includes the development of core skills in making, maths, drawing (CAD) and coding. Whatever a student’s prior experience, they’ll be trained to get started safely with our machinery and have opportunities to apply theory and practice as they realise their ideas. Everyone is different and inclusion is never finished: we work hard to adapt our campus, learning content, and workshops to welcome whoever joins us.
Through our maths pathways, we provide offer-holders with academic guidance, as well as supporting individual access needs and offering advice as students prepare for enrolment.
This scholarship is to encourage and empower our local community to consider higher education, engineering and ASU London.
Engineering UK (2019) statistics identified an annual shortfall of up to 59,000 engineering graduates and technicians to fill core engineering roles. We want engineering to be an accessible career choice for current workers looking to retrain and make ASU London a great option for people already working in engineering looking to upskill.
Our EDI themes, policies, plans, and strategies ensure that the ASU London campus and community is inclusive and enables every student and staff member to succeed.
You can read all of our policies here
