The Open University has launched a course to train postgraduate students to teach undergraduates. The university hopes that the distance-learning course will become a key component of the Institute for Learning and Teaching. The course leads to a postgraduate diploma in teaching and learning in higher education and is accredited by the Staff and Educational Development Association.
About 200 students have signed up from institutions including the University of Cambridge, the Royal College of Music and the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside.