Resources: Higher education staff

15 resources found for "Higher education staff"

Trainee teachers' physical and mental wellbeing: a study of university and school experience provision: This is an ESCalate themed funding grant in the area of student well-being awarded to Jan Huyton of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. This study focuses on wellbeing of PGCE / PGDE students, the provision of support and the impact of Fitness to Teach guidelines. It involves three cases studies, exploring institutional policy and the perceptions of staff and students to elicit key issues, and exploits Web 2.0 technologies to stimulate...
Exploring the rules of engagement via exemplars : enhancing staff and student dialogue about assessment and learning practice: This is an ESCalate Developing Pedagogy and Practice grant awarded to Kay Sambell of Northumbria University in 2009. This project develops a bank of activities and resources to enable Education staff to use concrete exemplars of student work as a means of enabling their students to approach assessment effectively. There will be two inter-related phases, one targeted on staff, one focused on their students. Both phases seek to promote dialogue...
National Teaching Fellows: This resource details the work of ESCalate, the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Education, in the area of the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS). It looks at NTFS individual awards and the project strand. It details Education National Teaching Fellows, by year of award
Senior Fellows: This resource details the work of ESCalate, the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Education in the area of Senior Fellows. The Higher Education Academy's Professional Recognition Scheme offers individuals the opportunity to gain recognition as Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Senior Fellows are outstanding champions of teaching and learning, and act as change agents at national and international level. Senior...
Early career academics and their experiences of linking research and teaching : a collaborative UK / Canadian project: Dr Lisa Lucas and Nancy Turner were successful project partners in the ESCalate October 2005 Development Grant funding round. The support they received helped them to carry out this research and the project is now near to completion. In this article, the authors state that the significance of the link between research and teaching has become increasingly important within debates on higher education in many western countries. This article was...
Meeting of Minds: TLRP Fellowship Scheme: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter autumn 2007, written by James O'Toole. The Teaching and Learning Reserach Programme (TLRP) announces the fourth round of its Fellowship Scheme. The funding is aimed at UK educational researchers who are already established in the field with high quality publications but are yet to become Principal Investigators (or equivalent) in their own right. Modest funding (based on travel and subsistence...
Bringing life to the material: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 11, summer 2008, by Doug Parkin, a Staff and Educational Development Manager at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He writes about the pitfalls and joys of being an educational programme assessor and the real pleasure of seeing a skilled teacher at work. He talks about assessing candidates on the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (PGCILT) introduced to support...
University of East London (UEL) Continuum: This is an ESCalate Commissioned Work project led by Professor John Storan, Dr Petula Peters and Kathy Wright of the University of East London. The project proposal carried out in the year 2008/9 focused on four areas of activity. These were: 1) Survey - New Learning Professionals Online survey of “New learning professionals” Focus groups (6-8 respondents per group) conducted with survey respondents 2) Listening to Learners – Student Voice The...
Taking the credit for professional development in HE: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, autumn 2008 wherein Nicola Reimann invites us to participate in a colloquium that explores ways in which universities can look beyond initial induction courses for new staff to a longer view that seeks to support professional development in more systematic and sustained ways. Over the past years HE has become increasingly complex and diversified, and so have careers in HE. Contemporary academic...
National Teaching Fellowship Scheme : ten years on and going strong: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 16, spring 2010. Lesley-Jane Eales-Reynolds, tells us about how the scheme began and how it continues to grow and share the benefits throughout the education community. Then in the following articles we have two personal accounts of what the awards have enabled people to achieve
Developing web-based materials to support the induction of new academic staff working on education courses in Higher Education: This is an ESCalate development project led by Jean Murray of Brunel University and completed in 2007. This project is designed to plan, collect and evaluate relevant support materials to be posted on the Education subject section of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) database for the induction of new academics (SNAS). The materials will be particularly targeted at academics involved in teaching on initial and continuing teacher education...
Reflections of a personal research journey: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 14, summer 2009 by Alison Hramiak and Helen Boulton. The article outlines the process the two authors went through to come together and produce their research material
Teaching in Higher Education : the Welsh Post-Graduate Certificate: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 15, autumn 2009. Colleen Connor gives an introduction to the way that a cross-institutional collaborative approach in post graduate development programmes for academic staff may provide opportunities for real transformational learning and how collaboration across five institutions in Wales aims to nurture a range of networks that supports pedagogic research
National Teaching Fellows individual awards 2008: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 11, summer 2008. It covers the outlines the aims of the National Teaching Fellows scheme and the winners for this year. The cohort of 2008 Fellows will join the current community of National Teaching Fellows bringing the total number of Fellowships awarded to 330. The awards will be presented to Fellows at a celebration event in London on Wednesday 24 September 2008. The NTFS, launched in...
On being awarded a National Teaching Fellowship: This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, spring 2010, issue 16. Julie Hughes, one of ESCalate's Academic Consultants talks about being awarded an NTF and the impact it has had on her professional life