Graham Gibbs on teaching lecturers to teach
Could training schemes for teachers help to improve student learning? asks Graham Gibbs
Could training schemes for teachers help to improve student learning? asks Graham Gibbs
Staff qualifications deserve greater weighting in the overall assessment of teaching excellence, argues Geoff Stoakes
The UK government has announced plans to alter the Higher Education and Research Bill to allow the creation of two-year “fast-track” degrees (for which institutions could charge higher tuition fees...
Increasing the number of fast-track degrees may devalue the currency of UK undergraduate courses in Europe, warns Jack Grove
The subject-level teaching excellence framework could lead to a lot of stress for no great gains over the institution-level TEF, says Andrew McRae
A pilot planned for the subject-level teaching excellence framework has revived debate about the importance of small group teaching at university
If Graham Gibbs is right that class contact hours are less important than independent study hours (“Watched clocks and scholarly toil”, Teaching intelligence, 14 March), then higher education...
Graham Gibbs argues for the validity of students’ instructional evaluations of their professors as measures of teaching quality “You don’t have to guess at who’s doing well”, Teaching intelligence, 5...
Graham Gibbs’ frustration with graduate employment data, outcome measures and the teaching excellence framework (“Employability data signify nothing”, Letters, 9 July) will be shared by many, but is...
Using employability data to assess a university’s teaching is ‘deeply problematic’, says Graham Gibbs
Most of us at one time or another must have encountered students who say something like, “I haven’t done any of the reading, I bet it is rubbish anyway: in my opinion…”, and then proceed to spout...
In his first major policy speech as universities and science minister, Jo Johnson spoke about the importance of graduate employability. The idea that you could use this as an indicator of the...
Teaching excellence is nothing without student engagement, says Claire Taylor
Universities should not be able to hide their reliance on fixed-term staff and insecure employment practices, says Sally Hunt