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  1. What is the Teaching Excellence Alliance?

    Alliance universities have developed areas of collective distinctiveness in learning and teaching which focuses on sustained student success in professional and technical education. The Teaching Excellence Alliance (TEA) seeks to enhance and promote this approach, at a time when scrutiny of teaching performance, value for money and skills gaps and productivity are high on the […]

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  2. For Students: What is the Teaching Excellence Alliance?

    The Teaching Excellence Alliance (TEA) has been set up by members of University Alliance, of which your university is a member, in order to enhance and promote excellence in professional and technical education (the distinctive model of Alliance universities) and to achieve sustained student success. Our areas of distinctiveness focus on progressive and innovative teaching […]

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  3. Peer Review College

    Teaching Excellence Alliance partners have been asked to nominate five colleagues from their institution to join the TEA Peer Review College as Members. This pack contains information to help with this selection and communication to colleagues, including: The background to and objectives of the Peer Review College, including Member profiles, to help you target invitations/ […]

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  4. Special Interest Groups

    TEA CPD is generally a bottom-up activity – led by the needs and interests of practitioners in universities. To compliment this we want to encourage more top-down activity and think this is a good approach for the Special Interest Groups. We suggest that we introduce a few broad themes and encourage a D/PVC to lead […]

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  5. The Guardian: Newer universities in line to receive extra student places

    Universities and colleges have until tomorrow to decide whether to accept the emergency extra student places they have been allocated. Earlier this month, the government announced 10,000 extra student numbers after warnings that universities would be unable to cater for the record 10% increase in applications during the recession. The government will provide only grants […]

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