A series of guides designed to provide help and information on the key themes in teaching and learning.
A Guide to SPSS for Information Science
This pack includes materials to help students use SPSS and contains a detailed easy-to-use guide, tutorials and several datasets. Although the datasets are primarily aimed at Information Science students, the guide and tutorials are of benefit to teachers and students of other disciplines. |
Personal Development Planning
This guide aims to provide a brief overview to Personal Development Planning (PDP) and sign post relevant resources and activities for the Information and Computer Science disciplines. |
Accessibility and Disability
Whilst increasing participation it is imperative that we ensure fair access for all. This guide is designed to provide background information on changes in legislation as well as pointers to useful resources and areas of support.
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Employability
Higher education is expanding rapidly, the economy is increasingly knowledge based and competitive, and the nature of graduates' work is increasingly diverse. This website aims to support a shift in thinking and action on employability. |
HE in FE
There is increased emphasis on the provision of HE within the FE sector in the implementation of the Government's widening participation agenda. |
Sustainablility
Sustainable Development (SD) is a term that many will have heard of, yet few fully understand.
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Widening Participation
The term ‘widening participation' is used to denote activities to recruit students from the groups that HEI's have identified as under-represented, and then to ensure their success. |
Student Retention
The issue of student retention is becoming increasingly important in the university sector. It is a complex issue and strategies to improve retention are not always easy to devise or to implement. |
Assessment
Higher education faces many concerns and contradictions in its pursuit of effectice practice in learning, teaching and assessment.
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Enterpreneurship
The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences is a key partner in a DfES funded project to encourage entrepreneurial skills amongst undergraduates, via curriculum development.
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Facts and Formulae leaflets
The Maths, Stats & OR network, and sigma have produced a number of leaftlets to support the transition from school mathematics to university mathematics in a range of disciplines.
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Group-work Video Resource
The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning has produced a resource designed to help both students and tutors understand and overcome the challenges of group work.
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