A Vision for the Future BEng/MEng in Civil Engineering

Video >> Civil engineering is about integrating information for solving real world problems and students need to see their learning as integrated rather than in boxes defined by discipline. However, there is also a step change up from being a student to then being responsible for constructing a building. In this presentation we share our …

Reviewing the 3rd Year in the School of English

Professor Jo Guy: “One of the things we’ve been told consistently by our external examiners is that we have some of the best feedback they’ve seen—the ‘gold standard’; yet this judgment is not reflected in NSS surveys. So we’ve had this problem of not being able to understand why, despite putting a great deal of …

Academic Development from Day One: The Department of Civil Engineering

In conversation with Dr Martin Smith and Dr Barbara Turnbull, Faculty of Engineering Martin: “I think what’s come out of our discussions with the Teaching Transformation Programme team is that we need to get students thinking about problem solving in the wider context of Civil Engineering from the start of their course, to get them …

Nottingham University Business School: Working with Students to Improve the Learning Experience

In an increasingly competitive, constantly changing sector, Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) is working with the Teaching Transformation Programme to ensure that it maintains its position as one of the world’s leading business schools. The School’s student body is both broad and diverse, with nearly 1,400 undergraduates from over 150 countries; the sheer size of …

Programme review in practice: The Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering

2014 saw M3 begin a Teaching Review with the intention of improving the student experience by providing more coherent programmes that deliver the learning outcomes whilst reducing assessment workload for students and staff. In partnership with the Teaching Transformation Programme, staff are looking at ways in which learning outcomes can be met effectively, efficiently and …

Professor Wyn Morgan: An Update on the Teaching Transformation Programme

We are now into the second phase of the four year Teaching Transformation Programme (TTP), which, as a reminder, is designed to help make a step change in the way Schools approach teaching and learning. Phase one saw the team make visits to all Schools to discuss in broad terms areas for potential support and …