University Alliance Chief Executive Maddalaine Ansell is joining the British Council as Director of Education, it has been announced this week. She will take up the new role in November where she will head up a new Education Policy Unit and be a member of the Management Board. Maddalaine joined University Alliance as Chief Executive […]
The UK is well placed to benefit from the new industrial revolution – and universities that focus on professional and technical skills are crucial to delivering the skills employers need (Industrial Strategy) Equally, if our students are to succeed in a world shaped by next generation technology, we need to equip them not only with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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/ […]
Welcome to the Peer Review College! You have been chosen by your institution because of your proven track record in teaching excellence. The idea behind the TEA Peer Review College is to draw on the cutting-edge pedagogic expertise from across the Alliance to benefit the whole network. The Peer Review College (PRC) is designed to […]
Teaching Excellence Alliance partners are asked to share existing, and create new, CPD for teaching staff and those that enable teaching, to provide support for staff members to enhance their practice and remain in ‘good standing’. This pack provides an overview of the types of activities within the scope of TEA-CPD to aid clarity and […]
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 […]
On a fine, if blustery, day in Salford Media City, students from Alliance universities across the country were arriving in town yesterday wondering which way the wind was going to blow. The final for Enterprise Stars 2018 was finally here and the investors, Peter Down from Cariocca Enterprises, Tom Howsam from Paid and Tim Foster from […]
Commenting on the announcement that Professor Chris Husbands has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2018 for his services to higher education, Liz Bromley, Acting CEO of University Alliance, said: “This is a much-deserved knighthood for Chris, who has been a driving force in improving teaching standards and transforming students’ lives […]
