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Abbas, Andrea; Abbas, Joan; Brayman, Kira; Brennan, John; Gantogtokh, Orkhon – Higher Education Academy, 2016
Higher education within the UK has expanded significantly over recent decades and is now characterised by considerable diversity in its institutional forms, in the content of its courses, and in the backgrounds, aspirations and destinations of its students. An extensive literature has identified HE pedagogies, including teaching practices and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Intellectual Disciplines
Abbas, Andrea; Abbas, Joan; Brayman, Kira; Brennan, John; Gantogokh, Orkhon – Higher Education Academy, 2016
This document provides the appendices for the report entitled: "Teaching Excellence in the Disciplines." Based on interviews with deans from a range of UK universities, the main report produced by LSE Enterprise for the HEA, provides a snapshot of different conceptions of what constitutes good teaching practice at discipline level and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Intellectual Disciplines
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Brennan, John; Williams, Ruth; Woodley, Alan – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2005
This chapter examines the current uses of alumni studies in the United Kingdom and outlines their challenges and limitations to informing policy and curriculum reform.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Alumni
Brennan, John; And Others – 1996
Five papers address issues in the current debate in the United Kingdom over standards in higher education, especially the "Graduate Standards" program of the Higher Education Quality Council. The first paper, an introduction by John Brennan, identifies key issues in the standards debate such as the role of mass education, the various…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Outcomes Assessment, Degrees (Academic), Educational Change
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Brennan, John; And Others – Higher Education Management, 1994
Two surveys involving approximately 8,000 university and polytechnic institute graduates in Germany and the United Kingdom were conducted to analyze employment; income; position and status; work assignments; gender differences; and influence of type of institution, subject of study, and socioeconomic background. Experiences of British and German…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Graduates, College Outcomes Assessment, Education Work Relationship