Key features
Key to achieving the aims and objectives of the Centre are the following features:
- A commitment to developing, implementing and evaluating teaching and learning strategies that promote a focus on professional, work-related and enterprise learning with problem-based, experiential and reflective approaches
- An opportunity to consider the development and acquisition of employability, leadership and enterprise skills from the dual discipline perspectives of Education and Science, giving rise to two models of curriculum development and staff engagement (further detail is given in the Interim Evaluation Report).
- Central co-ordination through the University’s educational development unit to ensure synergy with institutional learning, teaching and assessment strategy developments
- Development of two new learning spaces designed to facilitate interactive, technology-enhanced learning as well as bringing the workplace into the university
- Specialist support officers and business development managers whose roles are to create new networks with local communities, employers and client groups to support and extend professional practice and work-related learning opportunities within the curriculum, as well as research and enterprise activity
- Sabbatical and secondment opportunities, offered as part of a reward and recognition strategy, that provide staff with space
- to engage in pedagogic research, curriculum development or professional development
An evaluation and research strategy that promotes and combines appreciative critical enquiry with self-evaluation, as such there is a collective commitment to undertaking evaluation and for sharing those results more widely.
