Yvonne Hamblin (Employability Development Manager, Careers and Employability Centre), who inter alia manages the Loughborough Employability Award, has drawn our attention to a recent Higher Education Academy (HEA) publication entitled Defining and developing your approach to employability: a framework for higher education institutions by Doug Cole and Maureen Tibby. As the Association of Graduate Careers and Advisory Services (AGCAS) reports: “ThisRead more
Further details regarding the HEA STEM workshop on Practices in peer support – exploring alternative approaches to enhance the student experience, which we are running in CEDE’s Design Studio here at Loughborough University on 22 January 2014, are now available online. Peer support sees students supporting other students in a number of different ways during the courseRead more
Entitled A national survey of UK HE STEM practitioners 2013, three Loughborough University colleagues – namely Melanie King, Claire Creaser and Janette Matthews – from the Centre for Engineering and Design Education (CEDE) have just published a report for the Higher Education Academy (HEA). As the online summary regarding this report states: “This survey ofRead more
It is not always easy to determine where R (Research), T (Teaching) and E (Enterprise) might begin and end, indeed whether this post should be on the e@lboro blog! Working in the School of Sports, Exercise and Health Sciences here at Loughborough, Dr. Maria Inês Varela-Silva is Director of The Maya Project within the Centre for Global Health andRead more
Many Universities across the world are strengthening their class attendance policies. In the UK it is a legal requirement to monitor the ‘engagement’ of some types of international students, but many institutions have also extended this monitoring to all types of students. Drawing on university policy statements, a paper by Macfarlane (2013) identifies implicitRead more
Friday saw the Teaching Innovation Awards Dissemination Event 2013. The event was held to celebrate the completion of the projects originally awarded in 2012 and completed by July 2013. The lunchtime event began with an introduction from the Pro- Vice- Chancellor (Teaching) Professor Morag Bell. The seven winners then gave short summaries of their projectsRead more
The Box of Broadcasts (BoB) service will be unavailable from 5pm on December 13th until December 23rd. This is to allow for preparation of the next major release (V3) which will be launched officially on January 6th. NB – the screenshot on the left shows the current version. BoB is a fantastic service for teachingRead more
This week has seen Your Education Week across the campus, with various events and stalls asking students to comment on their education and what they would like improved across the institution. We have used the 10 Education Priorities as a basis for our questions during the week:- Over campus Programme Presidents and Programme Reps haveRead more
There can be some real pleasure in declaring a professional interest, and this is one of those occasions. Appearing less than a month ago in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, three colleagues – namely Francis Duah, Tony Croft and Matthew Inglis – from the Mathematics Education Centre here at Loughborough University have just published an articleRead more
Another batch of Futurelearn MOOCs has been announced today all of which start in March 2014: Shakespeare and his world from the University of Warwick (starts 3 March) An introduction to physical actor training from the University of Leeds (starts 10 March) Understanding modern business & organisations from the University of Strathclyde (starts 10 March) Make an impact:Read more