Dear All
Just to let you know that we're advertising the following three initiatives
- please do familiarise yourselves with the details of these incase of any
calls to the office, many thanks!
Ros
Supporting Departments in Strategic Change of Teaching
The Economics Network is pleased to announce three initiatives designed to
support departments in implementing and planning changes to teaching,
learning and assessment:
• Departmental Workshop programme (February to July 2010). Workshops can
be focused on any teaching and assessment aspect appropriate to your
department. The Economics Network is also happy to facilitate awaydays. For
more details including an online request form please go to:
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/events/workshops.htm
Deadline for requests: January 29 2010.
• Student Focus Group Scheme (March to July 2010). Designed to explore
and tackle student issues, focus groups will be run by an independent
evaluator who will return a confidential report to your department for your
use in planning. For more information including an online request form
please go to:
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/projects/surveys/focus_group
Deadline for requests: February 26 2010.
The Economics Network is able in total to run up to 10 workshops and 10
student focus groups free of charge. These will be allocated on a
first-come, first-served basis.
• Learning and Teaching Development Projects (July 2010 – June 2011).
Up to £5000 per project is available for small projects focused on
economics education. For more details including an online application form
please go to: http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/projects/mini/call Deadline
for proposals: Friday 1 May 2010.
Please feel free to the Economics Network on [log in to unmask] or
0117 331 4347 with any queries.
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Ros O'Leary
Deputy Director, HE Academy Economics Network
Institute for Learning & Research Technology
University of Bristol
8-10 Berkeley Square
Bristol
BS8 1HH
Tel: +44 (0)117 33 14440
Fax: +44 (0)117 33 14396
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/
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