Diet and Healthy Weight. The College has achieved Healthy Working Lives Gold Award. We intend to maintain this through 2021/22. BCSA promotes opportunities for students to engage in physical activity. For example, the ‘daily mile challenge’ encourages daily physical exercise, and students are able to join the SA’s football group. Going forward, BCSA is looking to secure a yoga instructor in order to establish a yoga club in 2019. BCSA successfully negotiated a competitive student discount on gym membership for Borders College students to make physical activity more accessible to those on smaller budgets. ‘Toast and Tea’ is a subsidised breakfast club that ensures all students are able to access at least one healthy breakfast each week.
Diet and Healthy Weight. Our centre for Sport and Exercise hosts superb sport and exercise facilities and we are ranked among the very best in the UK. We cater to a diverse range of users, from occasional exercisers to international athletes in our state of the art gym. University of Edinburgh Sport and Exercise is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming community and is proud to be open to everybody and is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming community environment for all.
Diet and Healthy Weight. Abertay is a member of NHS Health Scotland’s Healthy Working Lives Scheme and we have been Gold Award holders since 2016. This reflects our long-term commitment to promoting and developing healthy working lives. We also intend to join the UK Healthy Universities Network during 2019. Our Healthy Working Lives steering group, which includes staff representatives and those with expertise in the areas of physical activity, nutrition & mental health, develop strategy and action plans that offer staff the opportunity to participate in events or activities, which aim to improve or maintain wellbeing. This includes for example the Staff Health Fair, where both external and internal expertise comes together in a single interactive event for staff is an ideal opportunity to promote positive health behaviours to staff. This includes, among other things, the promotion of healthy eating and nutrition. The annual National Student Survey (NSS) provides us with feedback from final year students on their experience at Abertay. The results of the most recent survey (2018) were disappointing with a drop in the score for overall satisfaction from 84% to 79% which is four percentage points below benchmark. We are currently discussing the issues which emerged from the NSS across the University with a view to improving the student experience as a priority. Over the period of this outcome agreement we aim to achieve and then exceed our NSS benchmark. In 2017-18, we introduced a revised set of internal module surveys, modelled on the NSS, for undergraduate students on all stages of their degree programme and also for taught postgraduate students. This followed an internal review of previous practice and recognition of the importance of the surveys as a mechanism for gathering valuable information on students’ learning experiences which can be used for both enhancement and assurance purposes. It also recognized the importance of closing the feedback look by sharing the results and developing enhancement plans in a timely manner. One way in which this is being addressed is through the creation of Division-level student voice forums which will take place in week 7 of each term. These are co-chaired by the School Academic Curriculum Manager and a nominated class rep for each Division. Heads of Division, Programme Leaders, Module Leaders are all required to attend and an open invitation is extended to all students from the Division. Class Reps are expected to attend and to encourage st...
Diet and Healthy Weight. Following upon the success and annual reaccreditation of our Gold Award for ‘Healthy Working Lives’ in 2015, Forth Valley College broadened and deepened its commitment systematically. This increased effort was recognised through the attainment of the NHS ‘Healthy Living Award’ in 2017. The range of work underpinning these awards highlights Forth Valley College’s contribution to the Scottish Government’s strategy ‘A Healthier Future – Scotland’s Diet and Healthy Weight Delivery Plan (SDHWDP) 2018’. Marketing, promotion and staff training are important aspects of maintaining our awards and a wide selection of resources provided by NHS Health Scotland are used within the College. We organise at least two substantial healthy living promotions each year. The vision associated with SDHWDP seeks to create a Scotland where everyone eats well, and we all have a healthy weight. The vision is simple but its achievement is complex and multifaceted. There is, for example, a well-established relationship between poverty and obesity and a significant proportion of our students live in economically deprived areas. The SDHWDP has five outcomes. Forth Valley College recognises that the amount and periods of time staff and students spent here necessarily make us an important source of nutrition and outcome 2 ‘The food environment supports healthier choices’ challenges our institution in particular. In response to this, College food outlets must meet a standing target that at least 50% of food offerings contain, where appropriate to the type of food, the minimum recommended levels of fat, oil, salt and sugars. Fresh fruit and vegetables, locally sourced, are made available in attractive and visible ways and starchy foods are the main element in most cooked meals. Where appropriate we provide healthy, nutritious food for children and support broader healthier eating choices through regular promotions and marketing. When we purchase produce and ingredients our first consideration relates to levels of salt, sugar, fat and oil. Where these are too high we just won’t buy. We have ceased the sale of “energy” drinks containing high sugar and caffeine. Our Refectories and Gallery restaurant promote dietary variety and support a range of dietary requirements through a healthy menu choice. We encourage consumers to engage proactively with their food choices through purchase point discussion and marketing tools. Of course our daily menus typically offer gluten free, vegetarian and vegan...
Diet and Healthy Weight. The College is aware of the Scottish Government’s strategy, A healthier future: Scotland's diet and healthy weight delivery plan and its five outcomes. NESCol will contribute to the delivery of the strategy as appropriate, with key actions linked to Outcome 2: The food environment supports healthier choices, and Outcome 4: Leaders across all sectors promote health, diet and weight. The College will continue to work with its catering contractor to support staff and students to make positive dietary choices and to encourage an increased uptake of healthier choices which reduce the excessive consumption of food and drink high in fat, sugar or salt. The College already operates a canteen, The Made Healthier Café, at its Aberdeen City Campus which is a destination for healthy, balanced eating where all options use nutritious ingredients. The catering contractor will continue to be encouraged to promote healthier options to students and support healthy eating at home with the access to free ‘Eat Well’ recipe cards at College canteens and cafes. Fully equipped fitness suites are avaible free of charge at each of the College’s main Campuses to encourage staff and students to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Regular activities and exercise classes are also held in the Games Halls at the Aberdeen City and Fraserburgh Campuses. NESCol has achieved the Healthy Working Lives Award at Gold level and will seek to maintain this accreditation on an annual basis by continuing to identify and address issues which lead to further improvement of the College’s health, safety and wellbeing culture. Strategic engagement with the two local Community Planning Partnerships to support delivery of their LOIPs, and working with NHS Grampian’s Public Health Team will provide the College with opportunities to work more closely on a regional approach to the Scottish Government’s strategy which reduces duplication of actions undertaken in colleges in relation to diet and health weight. Articulation NESCol and RGU benefit from highly effective partnership working in a number of key areas which enable the institutions to deliver the right learning in the right place, develop the region’s workforce and contribute to the region’s economic needs. In recent years the Boards of the two institutions have held a number of joint events to discuss curriculum links and future developments and opportunities for the partnership. Both institutions remain committed to developing further the longstanding stro...
Diet and Healthy Weight. The Scottish Campuses have achieved the Healthy Living Award9. 7 Mental Health policies and guides: xxxxx://xxx.xx.xx.xx/students/health- wellbeing/edinburgh/disability/support/mental-health-problems.htm 8 Wellbeing activities: xxxxx://xxx.xx.xx.xx/students/health-wellbeing/edinburgh/activities.htm 9 Healthy Living Award: xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx/customers/healthy-eating-near-you/edinburgh-and- lothians o The University has launched Report it, an online tool where staff or students can confidentially highlight cases of harassment, bullying or abuse of any kind10. o The University has invested in SafeZone11. This is a free app that allows students or staff to send a location-based alert from their smartphone or tablet to the University’s SafeGuarding Services whenever an immediate emergency response, first-aid or any other general assistance is required. o In July 2018 representatives from the University’s Human Resources and Wellbeing teams participated in Bystander Intervention training held by Police Scotland. This training is being rolled-out in partnership with the Student Union during 2019. o In September 2018, alongside all other Scottish HEIs, Heriot-Watt University issued Gender-based Violence Support Cards to all staff based in its Scottish Campuses. The outcomes from developments in this area will inform the University’s Gender Action Plan12 (see also Priority 5). The July 2017 Plan will be reviewed in April 2019 and will provide an update on developments in the area of gender based violence. Developments will also inform the review and update of the University’s current Student Harassment and Bullying Policy13 Additionally, from 2015/16, the Heriot-Watt University “Go Global” programme has promoted opportunities for our students to move freely among the Heriot-Watt campuses in Scotland, Dubai and Malaysia for a semester, a full year of study, or longer. In 2018/19 approaching 300 students are taking the opportunity, about a third being outwardly mobile from Scotland, with strong indications of still increasing interest and take-up for the future. We see the international multi-campus basis of Heriot-Watt offering perhaps unprecedented opportunities to realise scaled-up international student mobility, making the experience of study abroad a reality for any Heriot-Watt student who wishes it, with obvious benefits for personal development and graduate employability. We are promoting this as a valuable and distinctive feature of studying ...
Diet and Healthy Weight. In support of the goals in the government’s diet and healthy weight delivery plan, the college has put in place a number of initiatives to support staff and students. The Student Association promotes a range of health initiatives to students throughout the year and, having already achieved 4 Stars for the Healthy Body, Healthy Mind award, is working towards 5 star accreditation. The refectory and training restaurant offer staff and students gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan and low-fat options on a daily basis. And the gym and fitness studio is open over lunch and evenings for staff and student use. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are now recognised as having a potentially negative impact on an individual’s future development. It is evident that an increasing number of our students have experienced ACEs in childhood and young adult life, and the college will work with them to build resilience to enable them to achieve their goals. We will become an ACE-aware, trauma-informed college in 2019-20. All staff will undertake training to understand what ACEs are and what this means for their professional role. The West Lothian ACEs Hub presented to all college staff in February 2019, following which the college joined the Hub and is now the host venue for Hub meetings. All Childhood Practice lecturers and managers, and some work based assessors took part in the inaugural Making Scotland the World’s First Ace- Aware Nation conference. Following that, they led dissemination sessions for curriculum and support teams across the college, helping to build an increased level of awareness of ACEs to respond to students with a more informed perspective. Understanding of ACEs is being built into some full time and work based courses in care and early years. We are in a unique position in the college sector to contribute to Scotland’s ambition to be an ACE-aware nation. Through the Children’s Hearings Scotland Learning Academy (CHSLA), our trainers develop the skills of thousands of panellists across Scotland. Our CHSLA trainers have considerable understanding of ACEs. They developed and deliver online ACEs courses to children’s panel members across Scotland, and support workshops for college staff developed around a screening of the widely respected Resilience film. The college’s Gender Action Plan aims to address gender imbalances on identified courses and in our staffing complement. We use data analysis proactively to monitor gender balance on all courses and review pe...
Diet and Healthy Weight. Foodservice provision on campus has previously achieved healthy living accreditation in all of its retail catering units and these will be renewed in 2019 with a particular focus on the staff training and healthy living eventing required to deliver this. Whilst historically there has been little engagement with the UK Healthy Universities Network, with new leadership of the service in 2018, this has been prioritised as an objective for 2018/19. The service works hard to provide healthier choices to its customers across the various menus and snacks on offer. The University is a member of the respective Vegetarian and Vegan Societies. From a sustainability perspective, the University catering service has Fairtrade status and is looking to move into Direct Trade where possible. The service works in conjunction with the University sustainability team to promote the University allotments and we have begun to source small quantities of fruit and vegetables.
Diet and Healthy Weight. The University signed up to the UK Healthy Universities Network in November 2018. The Vice- Chancellor signed the statement of executive commitment to express our support for the aims of the network. A call for senior management level representation on a strategic steering group is currently taking place and it is envisaged that the group will meet for the first time early in 2018-19 semester two. The university already conducts a wide range of health and wellbeing- related activities and initiatives involving students, particularly, and staff. It is anticipated that involvement in the network will bring strategic coherence to these activities and access to resources and expertise across the sector. As stated on page 6, it is anticipated that HISA will take a key role in developing our response to the requirement to develop Diet and Healthy Weight strategies.
Diet and Healthy Weight. Student wellbeing is a core value for the university and being active is intrinsically linked due to the associated physical and mental health benefits as well as bolstering students’ social lives. In 2018/19, UWS introduced free gym memberships for all students to use UWS-operated fitness facilities in order to remove barriers to entry ensuring all students can get active and pursue a healthy lifestyle and recognising that an active lifestyle is intrinsically linked to good mental health and social interaction. UWS boasts excellent gym/fitness facilities at Ayr, Lanarkshire and Paisley campuses, with facilities at the Lanarkshire and Paisley campuses newly opened in 2018/19. Catering outlets offer a range of health food options for students and staff, including: meat free meal alternatives; fresh fruit, yoghurts and porridge/cereal for breakfast; a wide range of vegetarian and vegan snacks; full salad bar; range of milk alternatives; and a range of meal deals to promote healthy eating. This has secured an NHS Healthy Living award. The Team UWS (sports union) and NUS Scotland are leading a healthy body healthy mind award application for SAUWS and UWS. This is a student led initiative, with support from counselling and well-being staff and SAUWS advice worker. SAUWS also lead campaigns such as Movember, sexual health week and non-smoking initiatives. The Xxxxxx’x Bikes project provides bikes on loan to students in the residences at Paisley, Ayr and Lanarkshire to enable students to have a break from studies and improve their wellbeing through exercise and leisure time. The project promotes mental wellbeing and the launch events have included stalls by See Me and Breathing Space and the Samaritans. All services are promoted through Induction, Facebook, Twitter and the website in addition to ongoing promotion throughout the year.
