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Glover, S. R.; Harrison, T. G.; Shallcross, D. E. – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2016
Several UK University Chemistry Departments have former secondary school chemistry teachers employed as School Teacher Fellows (STF) who are heavily involved in outreach work and a range of teaching responsibilities. This study looks at the outreach role from the point of view of several of the STFs; the benefits, and the barriers and how this…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Departments
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Hamann, Julian – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
Far from allowing a governance of universities by the invisible hand of market forces, research performance assessments do not just measure differences in research quality, but yield themselves visible symptoms in terms of a stratification and standardization of disciplines. The article illustrates this with a case study of UK history departments…
Descriptors: Governance, Standards, Case Studies, Departments
Bowler, Megan – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2020
This paper takes stock of the state of language learning in the UK, as the country teeters on the edge of Brexit and becomes used to being led by the first Prime Minister in over 50 years to have studied Languages at university. The author, Megan Bowler, a Classics student at the University of Oxford, looks at the broad benefits to individuals,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Jiang, Nan; Carpenter, Victoria – International Journal of Educational Management, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the difference in the process of higher education (HE) internationalization across faculties in a post-1992 university and to identify faculty-specific factors through evaluating the four faculties in the case study. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative research is conducted in a post-1992…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Departments
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Healey, Mick; Bradford, Michael; Roberts, Carolyn; Knight, Yolande – International Journal for Academic Development, 2013
Bringing about change in teaching and learning in higher education is a core aspect of the work of academic developers. This paper is novel in analysing the experience of a year-long initiative to support curriculum changes in departments in related disciplines in different universities. It applies some of the processes developed by Change Academy…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Change Strategies
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Glover, S. R.; Harrison, T. G.; Shallcross, D. E. – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2016
While the effects of outreach with secondary school pupils has been researched the reasons teachers engage or the impacts on the teachers engaging in long-term relationships with a university department have not. Detailed interviews with chemistry teachers associated with outreach at Bristol ChemLabS have revealed many reasons for prolonged…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Chemistry, Partnerships in Education
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van der Merwe, Nico; McChlery, Stuart; Visser, Sarah Susanna – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
The paper adds to extant professional education literature by reflecting on apparent differences in pedagogy of similar professional programmes of study, allowing deeper insight into the unique strand of higher education influenced by the professions. A comparative international case study approach is adopted of an interpretive qualitative nature…
Descriptors: Accounting, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
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Gomez-Cash, Olga – Research-publishing.net, 2016
In the second year module "Professional Contexts for Modern Languages" at Lancaster University, students take 20-25 hour placements, and using a multimodal forum, they articulate their challenges, development and understanding of the varying contexts in which they are working. In summative assessment, students across languages and types…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness
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Shah, Mehrunissa – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2014
This essay explores the problematic nature of an enforced monolingual culture promoted by the current Conservative-led UK government. It comments upon the paradoxical nature of the 2014 curriculum that promotes heritage texts and "proper" English, when such poets embraced a Bakhtinian tolerance of languages. It focuses primarily upon the…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries, English Instruction
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Murphy, Mark; Curtis, Will – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
This study is based on interviews with 25 programme leaders at two universities in England. Programme leadership is ubiquitous and essential to effective university operations, yet there is surprisingly little research on the role. It is an ambiguous and complex form of leadership, existing as it does in the space between standard academic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Department Heads, Leadership, Leadership Role
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Zulu, C. B. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Research on women in leadership has received growing attention in recent years. But not enough studies have investigated the way women construct leadership and management of the academic department. This article reports on the findings of an inquiry into the experiences of women heads of academic departments (HoDs) at universities in South Africa…
Descriptors: Females, Integrity, Foreign Countries, Transformational Leadership
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Keay, Jeanne; May, Helen; O' Mahony, Joan – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2014
This article builds on the key findings of the UK Higher Education Academy study "Transnational Education Learning and Teaching" to explore the way in which Wenger's characteristics of communities of practice could help provide a theoretical framework for improving communication and creating more effective transnational education (TNE)…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Partnerships in Education
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Iqani, Mehita; Feigenbaum, Anna – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2015
In a series of Teaching Exchange (TE) staff development workshops aimed at exploring prospective, bottom-up quality assurance in media studies in the United Kingdom, interdisciplinarity arose as a key topic. This article reflects on teaching staff's views expressed in the TE workshops around interdisciplinarity in relation to their experiences in…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Opportunities, Barriers
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Lyon, Steve – School Science Review, 2014
Changes to the mathematics and science curriculums are designed to increase rigour in mathematics, and place greater emphasis on mathematical content in science subjects at key stages 3, 4 and 5 (ages 11-18). One way to meet the growing challenge of providing increased emphasis on mathematics in the science curriculum is greater collaboration…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
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Floyd, Alan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
In the current higher education climate, there is a growing perception that the pressures associated with being an academic middle manager outweigh the perceived rewards of the position. This article investigates the personal and professional circumstances that lead academics to become middle managers by drawing on data from life history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Department Heads, Deans
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