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An excellent conference with links to many ideas, documents and people who are worth watching. From a curriculum, pedagogy and policy perspective, there is a lot of guidance out there: QAA have appointed a chair for their review body of the 2012 QAA Enterprise and Entrepreneurship guidance. There is likely […]

Takeaways from the IEEC Conference

September 13, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged conference / event / Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

On 11/05/17 York St John hosted the inaugural Learning and Teaching Conference titled: ‘Formulating excellence in inclusive learning, teaching and assessment practice: have we reached the tipping point in higher education?’ Professor Alan Hurst’s opening address focused on ‘Reflections on 45 years’ of practice: 71-17 from then to today’. The […]

Inclusive Learning and Teaching Conference

May 26, 2017 in Events tagged conference / event / Learning and Teaching by Gabby Wilson

On 16th March, I attended the Higher Education Beyond Fellowship Conference at Conference Aston, Birmingham. The event gathers together colleagues from across the UK who are involved in academic development, mainly those who are responsible for leading postgraduate certificates or internal CPD schemes. There was good representation from York […]

Higher Education Beyond Fellowship Conference

March 20, 2017 in Events / HEA Fellowship (YSJ CPD Framework) / Learning and Teaching tagged conference / CPD / HEA by Gabby Wilson

On 10/11/16 I attended the national HEFCE learning gain conference to find out more about what has been happening across the sector in this area of work and to think about what implications it might have for YSJU. Why is there an interest in learning gain? There are many international […]

Learning Gain

November 14, 2016 in Uncategorized tagged conference / HEFCE / learning by

Westminster Higher Education Forum – 31 October 2016 The forum focused on two themes: lessons learned from REF 2014 and plans for Ref 2020/1 following the Stern Review. It was stressed several times that peer review would remain at the centre of the process so that the sector would continue […]

Next Steps for REF

November 2, 2016 in Research / Research training and events tagged conference / Research by Admin

Earlier this year, I attended the 2nd Research Reflections conference at York St John University, hosted on Thursday 8th September 2016 by the Academic Development Directorate. As part of the administrative staff here at York St John, I have been highly involved in organising and running research events, but this […]

Research Reflections 2016

October 3, 2016 in Events / Learning and Teaching / News / Research tagged conference / event / Research by Gabby Wilson