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interested.
Dear Colleagues
Many of you may have seen the announcement from HEFCE last week that the
HEFCE Board, at its meeting in September, approved: "additional funding
to support teaching informed by research, for 2006-07 and 2007-08, to be
allocated in inverse proportion to an institution's research funding."
This funding, which will supplement learning and teaching funding from
HEFCE, should be seen in the context of the growing interest nationally
and internationally in developing the teaching-research nexus.
Linking teaching and research is an issue for all higher education
institutions. The Higher Education Academy are holding a conference in
London on 8th November on "The Teaching and Research Relationship:
Developing Institutional Policy and Practice"
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/List_3363.htm, which will help support
all institutions address this issue. Dr Liz Beaty, Director (Learning
and Teaching) at HEFCE, is one of the speakers.
The conference will see the launch of a booklet we have written on
Institutional Strategies to Link Teaching and Research. The booklet
uses existing research evidence and practice about ways of developing
the beneficial aspects of the linkage and draws on examples from a wide
range of institutions in the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US and
elsewhere. Everyone participating at the conference will receive a
copy. A pdf version will be available after the conference on the
Academy website http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources.asp.
The attached document summarises the context to HEFCE's announcement,
makes some suggestions for promoting the initiative, and outlines some
student-centred examples for developing a research-informed teaching
environment, which could be adapted by other HEIs. It should be of
particular relevance to Pro-VCs (Teaching and Learning) and others who
have institutional responsibilities for determining the use of the
funds. However, the examples are relevant to all HEIs whether 'more' or
'less research intensive' and whether based in England or not. The note
has been written in collaboration with The Academy's Research and
Teaching Forum, chaired by Professor Roger Brown (Vice Chancellor
Southampton University Solent), and provides a taster for the booklet.
Best wishes
Alan Jenkins and Mick Healey
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Professor Mick Healey
Director: Geography Discipline Network and Centre for Active Learning in
Geography, Environment and Related Disciplines;
Senior Advisor for Geography Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for
Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Gloucestershire
Cheltenham GL50 4AZ, UK
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Alan Jenkins;Reinvention Fellow for the Reinvention Centre for
Undergraduate Research : University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes
University http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/cetl/
and Associate Practitioner for the Higher Education Academy.
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For details on the book you really need on Reshaping Teaching in Higher
Education : Linking Teaching and Research go to
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0749439033/ref=ed_ra_of_dp/202-0719142-6681429
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