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Professor Earle Abrahamson, University of Hertfordshire At the recent ANTF Symposium in Hereford (20–21 May), I reflected on my experience of leading and participating in collaborative writing groups that support colleagues preparing National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) and Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) applications. These groups emerged not from strategy, but from a shared need… Continue reading Getting it Write: Collaboration in the Pursuit of Reward and Recognition
Alasdair Blair, Associate PVC Education; Megan De Ste Croix, Academic Professional Development Lead; and, James Russell, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media, from De Montfort University In the evolving landscape of higher education, block teaching has emerged as a transformative curriculum model - where students study one subject at a time… Continue reading Embedding Pedagogic Purpose into Block Teaching: The DMU Active Learning Model
Professors Earle Abrahamson, Emmajane Milton, Hannah Cobb At the ANTF Symposium in Hereford on 21 May, we gathered as members of National Learning and Teaching Focused Network to explore a subject often absent from sector-wide discourse: hope. In a higher education environment increasingly shaped by financial pressures, policy shifts, and uncertainty, the core purpose of… Continue reading WISER Ways to Hope: Reclaiming the Heart of Higher Education
