NewDEAL: working for student success

Experimenting with inclusive and open courses

In response to the "New University Curricula (NCU)" call for projects, NewDEAL is financed by the PIA (Investments for the Future Programme). These resources will allow the university to undergo transformations to improve the academic and educational success of undergraduates. 
To reach this goal, NewDEAL is based on three core principles:

• create open, flexible and diversified curricula in terms of the content, format and pace 
• implement programmes connected to research, the industrial and socio-economic sectors and societal issues
• empower students to play a key role in their success

A multi-year project devoted to student success 

The in-depth transformation brought about by the NewDEAL project is based on the gradual introduction of the University of Bordeaux's model for new curricula.

The primary objective is to deploy comprehensive, open curricula by devoting efforts to experimenting with and validating new teaching methods and organisations, and to creating synergies with the different entities involved (teaching teams, components, admissions, Support Mission for Education and Innovation - MAPI, etc.). 

After six years, the first prototype projects will have been carried out and the impacts of these transformations on the students and teaching teams evaluated. As a result, the model will be deployed on a larger scale and any and all students who wish to do so will be able to take part in an open curriculum, regardless of their field of study.

Finally, the last four years of the NewDEAL project will be devoted to finalising the roll-out of the model to all university courses, concluding the University of Bordeaux's transformation process in favour of student success.