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Spowart, Lucy; Winter, Jennie; Turner, Rebecca; Burden, Penny; Botham, Kathryn Ann; Muneer, Reema; van der Sluis, Hendrik; Huet, Isabel – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
With increasing moves globally towards the professionalisation of teaching in Higher Education, there is growing interest in the role of accredited professional recognition schemes that provide professional development for established university teaching staff. In the UK, There are now over 120 professional recognition schemes, resulting in…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, College Faculty, Faculty Development, School Culture
Kneale, Pauline; Winter, Jennie; Turner, Rebecca; Spowart, Lucy; Hughes, Jane; McKenna, Colleen; Muneer, Reema – Higher Education Academy, 2016
This toolkit is developed as a resource for providers of teaching-related continuing professional development (CPD) in higher education (HE). It focuses on capturing the longer-term value and impact of CPD for teachers and learners, and moving away from immediate satisfaction measures. It is informed by the literature on evaluating higher…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, College Faculty
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Spowart, Lucy; Turner, Rebecca; Shenton, Deborah; Kneale, Pauline – International Journal for Academic Development, 2016
The status of teaching and learning is an issue those providing and supporting higher education grapple with. The UK Higher Education Academy offers accreditation aligned to the professional standards framework (PSF). The PSF contextualises the role of teaching and supporting learning, and offers a mechanism for individuals' commitment to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions), Experienced Teachers, College Faculty
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Turner, Rebecca; Gosling, David – Higher Education Quarterly, 2012
The need to provide more significant rewards for "teaching excellence" in order to provide parity of status with research in higher education has often been asserted. This paper examines ways in which the idea of rewarding excellent teaching has been understood and translated within a large teaching and learning initiative that was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Scholarship, Research
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Turner, Rebecca; McKenzie, Liz; Stone, Mark – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2009
The professional status of further education lecturers has been widely debated and contested within the published literature. This article presents the results of a series of semi-structured interviews undertaken with a small sample of college lecturers working within a partner college network in south-west England. Regardless of the level of the…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, Adult Education, Interviews, Foreign Countries