Learning and Teaching Matters

Archive for March 2008

Learning and Teaching Week 2008

Posted by: iggiles on: 28 March, 2008

The Strategy in Action
The Learning and Teaching week 2008 is being held in the week of the 31st March until 4th April.  The keynote address is being given by Professor Bob Burgess (VC at Leicester University) on “Beyond the Honours Degree Classification”.  Full details of all the events being held in the week can be [...]

Three teams of five students from the School of Engineering Sciences (SES) has taken part in the IBM Universities Business Challenge 2007/2008. The universities business challenge is a training exercise that is built around a computer simulation of competing companies. Each team is representing one company, and has to make decisions about use of their [...]

Fitness to Study Policy

Posted by: fionagrindey on: 13 March, 2008

There is a growing awareness among professional bodies and groups working in the field of student support of the need for higher education institutions to respond appropriately to situations where visible signs of illness, mental health difficulties, psychological, personality or emotional disorders may have a profoundly disturbing impact on the functioning of individual students and [...]

Academic Integrity

Posted by: iggiles on: 12 March, 2008

At the February meeting of AQSC a revised version of the Guidance for Schools on using the Academic Integrity Statement was approved.  A number of changes were approved to the regulations in the Calendar and changes to this guidance document related to the changes in regulations, issues regarding serial and multiple incidents, issues involving two [...]

Learning and Teaching Week 2008 – update

Posted by: lateu on: 7 March, 2008

The programme for Learning and Teaching Week has been finalised and is available on our website and in the flyers which we have just distributed to Schools and Services. Look out for posters advertising the event as well – it is based around one of the many superb public photos of the University available on [...]