"Teaching and learning are central to the purpose of higher education. We are committed to understanding better where and how good teaching and learning take place and to take steps to ensure that standards are high and continually improved, and that best practice is effectively shared. All students are entitled to high quality teaching, and to the best possible information to help them make the right choices about what to study and where. And those who teach well are entitled to have their success rewarded properly."
Extract from Chapter 4 2003 White Paper: The Future of Higher Education.
At Birmingham, we are committed to enabling all our students to profit from a culture of learning, aligned with our research ethos, which is based upon critical enquiry, debate and self-motivation.
Our learning culture takes different forms in different disciplinary areas, each of which have their own distinct characters and traditions of learning. Key to our learning culture across all our disciplines at Birmingham, however, is a model of enquiry-based learning. This model of learning is intended to challenge and engage our students who will encounter it, in different guises, at different levels of their educational experience.
At the University of Birmingham we are committed to:
The criteria for promotion have been extensively remodelled and the University now offers academic staff the opportunity to develop teaching focused careers, more information is available on the HR website (you will need your adf logon details)
You can also contact any of the Academic Practice team in CLAD for advice on how to develop your teaching career and prepare for promotion on the basis of teaching excellence.
At Birmingham, we are committed to enabling all our students to profit from a culture of learning,
aligned with our research ethos, which is based upon critical enquiry, debate and self-motivation
