Teaching Exchange

We held the Teaching Exchange yesterday , and it was a very successful event, there was standing room only in the first session, so we had to move to a bigger room!

HEA guide to pedagogy for employability

The HEA (Higher Education Academy) has published a new revised guide to pedagogy for employability to help embed employability skills into the curriculum.....

Teaching that matters new million+ report

Teaching That Matters new million+ report is released today on how the modern universities are leading a teaching revolution...

Education for life, or for work?

The higher education white paper proposes that universities should train students for their future jobs. But not all academics are keen. Professor John Brennan, director of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information at the Open University, has studied graduate employability for the past 20 years and sees real danger in "training for work" displacing "education for life" in the student experience.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jul/25/white-paper-universities-training-jobs