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Browne J (2010)
The report’s recommendations include the following: fees are increased to compensate for reductions in public funding; the system for repayment of Government loans is reformed to increase fairness and reduce the burden on Government; competition for students among institutions should be introduced in order to improve quality.
BIS (2010)
The current further education (FE) funding system is designed to partly comprise co-investment from employers and individuals; however, the
planned total is not being collected by colleges and training providers. This review describes the current system and makes recommendations to lead to a system that supports co-investment in from individuals, employers and government.
Mistry J, White F and Beradi A (2009)
This study explores which ‘skills’ are taught, learnt, used and required at taught Master’s level in the field of Development and Environment, by surveying and interviewing course directors, employers and alumni.
Staff and student perceptions of feedback quality in the context of widening participation (full report)
Beaumont C, O’Doherty M and Shannon L (2008)
This is a report on a study of staff and student perceptions of ‘quality feedback’ under the impact of major changes within higher education in the UK.
Transforming assessment and feedback: enhancing integration and empowerment in the first year (full report)
Nicol D (2008)
Drawing on a review of the literature on assessment and feedback in the first year of study, this paper presents a set of recommendations for policy makers, senior managers and teachers.
JISC/Higher Education Academy (2009)
This summary provides an overview, through selected examples, of DeL projects.
Using role and reference grammar to support computer-assisted assessment of free-text answers (full report)
Guest E and Brown S 92008)
This study explores the possibility of marking students’ free-text assessment answers using an innovative computer-assisted approach.
Yorke M and Longden B 92008
This study was undertaken in early 2008 in order to gain a more detailed perspective on the part-time student learning experience.
Stuart M, Lido C, Morgan S, Solomon L and Akroyd K (2008)
This report analyses the barriers and deterrents that affect ‘widening participation’ students when considering continuation in higher education to study at postgraduate level.
Hyland F, Trahar S, Anderson J and Dickens A (2008)
This paper reports on research that explored staff and home and international students’ perceptions of internationalisation in their institutions.
Organisational change and institutional development
Higher Education Academy/GENIE CETL(2009)
Academic staff perceive teaching in UK higher education to be valued and rewarded too little, both in promotion and appointment processes and in the culture of the institution.
BIS (2009)
The document sets out the Government’s framework for higher education that comprises its vision for UK higher education of the future.
Browne J (2010)
The report’s recommendations include the following: fees are increased to compensate for reductions in public funding; the system for repayment of Government loans is reformed to increase fairness and reduce the burden on Government; competition for students among institutions should be introduced in order to improve quality.
BIS (2010)
The current further education (FE) funding system is designed to partly comprise co-investment from employers and individuals; however, the
planned total is not being collected by colleges and training providers. This review describes the current system and makes recommendations to lead to a system that supports co-investment in from individuals, employers and government.
Personal and professional development and CPD
Johnston V and Westwood J (2007)
This is the report of a research project to create professional development resources for programme leaders (course organisers) in the higher education sector.
Surridge P (2008)
This report presents analysis of the National Student Survey (NSS) in all three years. It focuses on mapping student, course and institutional effects on NSS scores, and institutional variation over the three years.
Park C (2009)
The PRES 2007-9 findings show that research students have generally very positive views about their experiences, rating them overall just as positively as undergraduates in the NSS and taught postgraduates in the PTES. The most positive areas within the overall experience are supervision, skills development and thesis examination, and the least positive are infrastructure, intellectual climate and professional development and career.
Park C and Kulej G (2009)
This report provides an analysis of the aggregate results of the first Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) 2009.
Gibbs G, Knapper C and Picinnin S (2007)
This is a report of a research project on departmental leadership of teaching in research-intensive university environments.
Burgess B (2007)
This report has been produced by the Measuring and Recording Student Achievement Steering Group – the ‘Burgess Group’ – for the UK higher education sector. It is the third, and final, report on measuring and recording student achievement. It explores how to reform or replace the current classification system, and presents a series of proposals.
Rush D and Hart M (2007)
This is a report on a project which explored ‘the dynamics of change in the university sector’, and especially in business schools in the UK.
Yorke M and Longden B (2007)
Findings from phase 1 of the project suggest that two strong influences from withdrawal from university are worry over finances and the quality of prior information about the HEI and the degree programme, whilst making friends and aspects of teaching were the most dominant aspects of a positive student experience.
Yorke M (2009)
There has been a general upward trend in the classification of honours degrees since 1994. Whilst there are a number of factors that may have influenced this rise, there is no ‘one’ explanation; rather, each HEI must address the issue individually.
Healey M and Jenkins A (2009)
All undergraduate students in all higher education institutions should experience learning through, and about, research and inquiry. There should be a move away from students as audience to individual academics’ research towards students becoming stakeholders in a research community in which their experience of research mirrors that of their lecturers.
Jenkins A, Healey M and Zetter R (2007)
The report argues that the teaching-research nexus is central to higher education and that departments are key to developing the links between them. It explores the varied nature of research-teaching linkages between disciplines, providing case studies and suggesting a number of strategies for course design and institutional policy to strengthen the connection.
Trowler P and Wareham T (2009)
This report sets out a summary of the key themes covered in the literature on linkages between disciplinary differences and research practices, linkages between disciplinary differences and teaching and learning and the nature of the “teaching-research nexus”. The report aims to provide an overview of the concepts and approaches taken in these areas rather than a descriptive review.
Mistry J, White F and Beradi A (2009)
This study explores which ‘skills’ are taught, learnt, used and required at taught Master’s level in the field of Development and Environment, by surveying and interviewing course directors, employers and alumni.
Meyer J, Ward S and Latreille P (2009)
This study suggests that metalearning activities carried out before and after learning of a threshold concepts can positively benefit students’ awareness of and control over their learning.
Wilson D & Dixon W (2009)
Suggesting that economics teaching has become less pluralistic in the recent past and that economics students find it difficult to develop effective learning strategies, this paper argues that teaching and learning strategies are part of the problem rather than its solution.