www.lfhe.ac.uk INTRODUCTION Over the last decade the pressures in higher education in the UK have become greater than ever and this includes growth in student numbers, severe regulatory demands, and, more recently, explicit competition. The corollary of this has been a steady increase in the measures within universities to actively manage finances and quality. It could be anticipated that the a...

The University of Sydney set up an elearning support initiative in 2004 to enhance student learning and provide sustainable learning technologies which would promote research-led, active, innovative approaches to learning and teaching. One of the key strategies is to support academic staff through the development of elearning projects. The University’s faculties work within the University guide...

The present study investigated smoking prevalence and attitudes toward smoking in student and staff nurses, and activities to promote tobacco intervention by staff nurses. A total of 743 student nurses in 2 colleges and one university and 490 staff nurses in the university hospital in Niigata, Japan participated in the study and filled in self-administered anonymous questionnaires focused on sm...

Julie Mitchell is Managing Librarian for the Chapman Learning Commons in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia, e-mail: [email protected]; Nathalie Soini is Learning Commons Coordinator at Queen’s University, e-mail: [email protected]. © 2014 Julie Mitchell and Nathalie Soini, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC B...

StudentShapers is a program launched in 2018 as part of Imperial College's Learning and Teaching strategy to support partnership between staff students. It supports projects related all areas educational development research. In particular, it provides financial for students facilitate their involvement activities, mandates that the should equally value expertise students, present equal opportu...

Ensuring that all graduates are able to exploit new technologies is a primary goal of all UK universities and a variety of assumptions have underpinned policies designed to promote this goal. This paper explores some of these assumptions through the findings of a longitudinal study involving a cohort of over 800 university students. The study adopted a student perspective to examine the factors...

Peer review is an efficient tool for staff educators to use in promoting professional staff and student development. The information gathered from peer review can be used by staff educators to develop individualized performance improvement plans to support staff development and increase student learning. Peer review provides a form of feedback that can be used to identify staff clinical learnin...

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This article reports on an analysis of reflections by students and staff following a student-staff partnership which conducted qualitative exploratory inquiry case study student mental health in higher education. Following completion the inquiry, two engaged principal investigator reflected their experience partnership. The resulted categories: a) benefits, b) support for learning, c) motivatio...