The Change Leader, Inc.
JULY 31, 2019
How to Prevent Accreditation Issues Due to Governance Failures is a case study demonstrating governance failure's role in accreditation crisis.
Teaching Matters Student Employment
JULY 30, 2019
Photo credit: unsplash, Elizabeth Jamieson, CC0 In this post, Dr Daniel Kenealy, a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Science, presents his six top tips for organising student work placements One of my most challenging but rewarding tasks has been the development of around eighty ‘Capstone’ placements for postgraduate students enrolled on a Master of Public Policy programme.
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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
JULY 30, 2019
A 4th year Cyprus Field Trip. Photo credit: Louis Kinnear. In this post, Dr Gillian McCay, assistant curator of the Cockburn Geological Museum, reflects on the transformative experience of fieldwork for Earth Science students… If you ask a group of Earth Scientists what a liminal experience is, I can safely say that most of them will look at you like you have just spoken in dolphin whistles and clicks… But what most people don’t appreciate is that liminality is in fact a concept that is ce
Teaching Matters Academic Support
JULY 29, 2019
Photo credit: Pixabay, geralt, CC0 In this extra post, Professor Tina Harrison, Assistant Principal Academic Standards and Quality Assurance and Professor of Financial Services Marketing and Consumption , and Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team in Academic Services , explain the importance of mid-course feedback for both staff and students, and present findings from a recent evaluation to determine the effectiveness of mid-course feedback across the University, as well
Terminalfour
JULY 29, 2019
This week we trawled the websites of almost every university in the UK to find the emerging trends, new features and best campaigns in clearing 2019
HECG
JULY 28, 2019
By DAVID MYTON. Fasten your seat belts: the academic conference as we know it is encountering severe turbulence as it flies into a storm sparked by climate change – and it may not survive unscathed. It’s estimated that aviation accounts for 2% to 3% of global, man-made CO₂ emissions – and people flying to academic conferences are contributing a sizeable chunk of that figure.
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
JULY 30, 2019
Visit to Bramham Park, October of 2018, Photo by: Anna Rhodes In this post, Dr Francisca Lima, a landscape designer and a lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, reflects on the process of un-silencing during fieldtrips… I am usually faced with long periods of silence during a fieldtrip with the first-year students of Landscape Architecture to emblematic English gardens like Stowe, Rousham, Bramham, Hidcote, or Chatsworth.
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