Provide teaching that is informed and invigorated by the research and scholarship of its staff and is stimulating for students and enjoyable.
Provide a curriculum for each of its degree programmes that develops a broad understanding of the subject area together with a more detailed and critical understanding of selected areas.
Provide a supportive environment for students with effective mechanisms for referral to specialist services when required.
Develop in students a critical approach to evidence, theories and concepts.
Develop in students a range of subject-specific and generic skills appropriate to employment both within and outside of biology.
Facilitate students to develop their full academic potential in their chosen programme.
Assess students over a range of skills and identify and encourage academic excellence.
Impart to students an awareness of the importance of lifelong learning.
Offer access to degree programmes to the extent permitted by the intellectual aptitudes demanded by the programmes.
Prepare students for postgraduate study and a professional career in biology.
