Dear Colleagues

 

It is National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) season again.

 

Since I was awarded a NTF in 2000, I have often been asked to run workshops on applying for a NTF, mentor applicants and advise universities wanting to increase the number of successful applicants. 

 

I recognise that there are many different approaches both to applying for a NTF and to supporting potential candidates; applying for a NTF is after all a very personal affair.  What I have attempted to do is to distil some general points which potential candidates and universities may find worth considering.  They are arranged under three headings:

 

1. Ten Hints on Increasing your Chance of a Successful Application for a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF)
2. Ten Things to do to Help Prepare for Applying for a National Teaching Fellowship

3.      Ten Ways in which Universities can Support and Develop Applicants for National Teaching Fellowships.

 

Applicants I have mentored and participants at workshops say they have found earlier versions helpful.  So I thought I would make them more generally available on my website – www.mickhealey.co.uk under resources.

 

I would welcome hearing (off list) of additional or alternative suggestions and strategies for helping colleagues strengthen their applications and for universities to build the capacity and confidence of their staff to receive recognition for their teaching excellence.

 

Best wishes

 

Mick

 

Professor Mick Healey BA PhD NTF PFHEA

Higher Education Consultant and Researcher,

Emeritus Professor University of Gloucestershire,
Visiting Professor University College London,

Adjunct Professor Macquarie University,

International Teaching Fellow, University College Cork,

Co-Editor International Desk Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly,

HE Academy Associate and UKPSF Accreditor.

 
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For three new free publications each around 40,000 words see:

 

(2013) Developing and enhancing undergraduate final-year projects and dissertations

https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/node/8079

 

(2014) Developing research-based curricula in college-based higher education

https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/heinfe/Developing_research-based_curricula_in_CBHE

 

(2014) Engagement through partnership: Students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education

https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/engagement-through-partnership-students-partners-learning-and-teaching-higher-education

 

For a series of international articles on undergraduate research see:

http://www.cur.org/resources/institutions/international_perspectives/

 

There have been over 45,000 downloads of bibliographies and case studies from my website in the last four years

http://www.mickhealey.co.uk/resources