Following the amazing 7th Annual UK and Ireland PASS/PAL Leader Conference held at BU in 2016 this year’s annual conference in November took the PAL Team, including four BU students (Jessica Jones, Franceska De Ruyter, Joshua Carr and Katrin Mahfuz), to the Cork Institute of Technology. Delegates from 24 universities and institutes of higher education from the… Read more » about 8th Annual UK and Ireland PASS/PAL Conference, Cork
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‘Elevator pitch’ event to enrich student experiences
Nasiru Taura and Thanh Huynh recently organised a successful ‘elevator pitch’ event to enrich student experiences at BU, by enabling them to showcase their start-up projects as part of their Entrepreneurship and Business Ventures (EBV). The event featured four industry experts (including entrepreneurs, investors, and practitioners) as panelists. More than 70 people attended and participated in the event. Groups of students… Read more » about ‘Elevator pitch’ event to enrich student experiences
HE policy update for the w/e 8th December 2017
Fees and funding – the latest developments The fees and funding discussions continue with some interesting developments this week. Firstly, there was a written response by the Minister -responding to the Resolution of the House on 13th September 2017 on tuition fees (the non-binding one that was essentially passed unanimously because no Conservative MPs attended). … Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 8th December 2017
Kindness Summit 14th February 2018
We have seen kindness and service excellence everywhere at BU this week. Our Random Acts of Kindness week has included free donuts to students in our halls of residences, and a visit by the Anthony Nolan Trust to sign up Life saving Heroes to help save lives. Another highlight of the week – the CEL student co-creation… Read more » about Kindness Summit 14th February 2018
Outstanding final year undergraduate students received co-creation awards from the University
This year’s student-led co-creation awards were handed out to 15 outstanding students from different faculties of BU. The event took place on the 5th of December 2017 in the presence of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Tim MacIntyre-Bhatty who handed out the prizes and certificates, the Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning Professor Debbie… Read more » about Outstanding final year undergraduate students received co-creation awards from the University
How to become a CEL blogger
We strongly encourage BU staff to share their learning and teaching research and experiences by posting on the CEL blog. This is a good opportunity to publicise your work, raise your profile and to connect with others in your field. For those members of staff wanting to do this, please contact Heidi Singleton. Heidi will… Read more » about How to become a CEL blogger
HE policy update for the w/e 1st December 2017
The KEF is coming On 1st December, HEFCE launched a consultation on the new Knowledge Exchange Framework – the KEF – which was announced earlier in the Autumn by the Jo Johnson – as the “third leg” of the HE stool*. Putting aside the rather unflattering stool analogy, we prefer to think of this as… Read more » about HE policy update for the w/e 1st December 2017
Fusion Success for BU’s ESRC Project Management Event
Posted on behalf of Dr Karen Thompson – CEL Learning and Teaching Fellow The national ESRC Festival of Social Science included ten events organised by BU this year. One of these was ‘Putting Social Science into Project Management’, held in London and organised by Dr Karen Thompson and Paul Summers, from the Department of Leadership,… Read more » about Fusion Success for BU’s ESRC Project Management Event
TeachBU Fellows celebrated at 2017 VC Awards
49 members of BU staff who achieved HEA Fellowship or Senior Fellowship via the TeachBU scheme were recognised at this year’s Vice Chancellor’s Awards Ceremony. 2017 also saw the total number of TeachBU/HEA Fellows rise to over 100. TeachBU mentors are able to advise and support applicants in developing their case studies and full details… Read more » about TeachBU Fellows celebrated at 2017 VC Awards
BETT: even bigger EdTech show https://www.bettshow.com/#/
Colleagues, free to visit – Bett is the first industry show of the year in the education technology landscape, bringing together 850 leading companies, 103 exciting new edtech start ups and over 34,700 attendees from the global education community. They come together to celebrate, find inspiration and discuss the future of education, as well as the role technology and innovation… Read more » about BETT: even bigger EdTech show https://www.bettshow.com/#/
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