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Professor Lisa Taylor PhD MSc BSc (Hons) NTF SFHEA - Professor of Employability and Learning Innovation, University of East Anglia More than 70% of graduates still work from home one or two days a week (Institute of Student Employers, 2023) with 55% of Gen Z graduates preferring hybrid work (Kashyap, 2023). Graduates need to be prepared… Continue reading The pedagogical potential of online work-based placements to prepare students for an online world of work
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
