QAA Review of Overseas Provision: University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus
May 28, 2013
Chris Bexton: “The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) recently sent a team of reviewers to the University’s Ningbo campus as part of a review of Transnational Education in China and early indications are that the review went very well, with UNNC achieving it’s ‘stated intention to provide the “Nottingham experience” in China in less than 8 …
Seeing the bigger picture
April 18, 2012
Sarah Seeley: “In my capacity of Examinations Manager (on-line exams) I was looking forward to the Assessment in the Digital Age Conference and saw it as an opportunity to meet staff across the University and talk about implementation and support and get a better perspective of how I fit in. “As my focus is summative …
Listening to our students
February 1, 2011
Video >> Amir Ghaemmaghami: “For every single module we have a module evaluation from the students. We also have staff/student committees which meet at least once every term, sometimes more. There is at least one representative, usually two representatives, from the course who attend and if there are any issues, we can discuss them as …
Setting up project support
June 9, 2008
Video >> Show and Tell event: Small group in conversation. Interview Gordon Joyes: “We had probably, I don’t know, two thirds or more of the school turn up to the initial briefing, and of that, well over half of those, two thirds of that two thirds ended up with projects that we looked at and …
Taking ownership: building School e-learning capacity
Video >> Brett Bligh: “It’s almost as though you start off with a very strict project structure, and then what you’re really doing is creating a culture whereby people are more anxious to learn in general, and you start getting approached from all sorts of directions.” Tony Fisher: “One of the things that we wanted …
Forming an e-learning strategy group
June 5, 2008
Video >> Do Coyle: “The E-Learning Strategy Group in the School of Education was really formed as part of the Learning and Teaching Committee, and its brief was really to look at how e-learning, and learning and teaching in general, ‘What was the relationship between them?’ “Because there was a concern from some of us …
Do we select the right students? Analysis of the 1st year performance of students selected through a multi component interview procedure
January 15, 2008
Michael Jones, Nigel Kendall, Cyril Rauch and Sabine Totemeyer: Introduction: “Applications for vocational courses such as veterinary medicine far exceed the number of places available. In 2006 the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science (SVMS) had 840 applications for 95 places. The course at SVMS differs from more traditional courses delivered at other institutions: The …
How do academic staff get to know a student is identified as dyslexic?
June 18, 2007
Video >> Kate: “What ways do you end up corresponding and communicating with their academic staff?” Christine Carter, Academic Support: “I think there would be, in the first stage, there’s sort of a systems approach almost, really, or that’s what it tends to end up feeling like although it isn’t actually that. “When the report from …
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