We encourage you to get involved in CEL; attending one of our events, bidding for fusion money or fellowships, inviting CEL to one of your team meetings … Here is our schedule for the rest of October: 19th – Call out for Learning and Teaching Fellow applications FUNDING CALL OPEN LTF.  Launch SURE conference to… Read more » about What’s happening in CEL in October?

If you are interested in developing your learning and teaching skills you should have a look at CEL’s Learning and Teaching Fellowship scheme which is currently open for applications. The aim of the Scheme is to allow you to engage in pedagogic research activities or evaluation and develop innovative practices, disseminating this to a wide… Read more » about Applications for learning and teaching fellowships open until 16 November

The latest round of funding opened last week (Wednesday 14 October) and staff are encouraged to submit their proposals.  The aim of the funding is to lead to tangible outputs such as papers, products and presentations. There are 5 briefs aligned the CEL themes and against which you can bid: Employability and work-based learning Evaluation… Read more » about Don’t forget to submit your CEL Fusion bids by 9 November

If you’re a fan of Twitter and teaching and learning, the CEL twitter feed cel_bu will be perfect for you. You can follow cel_bu or see the tweets 0n the CEL home page. If you are tweeting about teaching and learning, don’t forget to @mention us.

If you saw the Apprentice, episode 2, last night you will have heard Baroness Brady utter these words (at 50 minutes and 40 seconds). In the same episode, Baroness Brady points out how insulting stereotypes can be but I fear she has steroetyped universities and ignored all the excellent work that nowadays goes on inside… Read more » about “It fell flat. I thought I was in a university lecture”