Collaborative; Produced by or involving two or more parties working together. Example, collaborative research. Collaboration and being an interdisciplinary worker are key components of success in many areas. For academics, collaboration builds research consensus and combining different areas of specialism looks impressive to potential funding bodies. For students, collaboration, or, ‘team work’, is an essential … Continue reading “A collaborative community of students and academics (Rachel Kahn)”
Ensuring prescribing competency in medical graduates using SCRIPT (Vera Kubenz, SCRIPT team)
One of the key challenges facing medical education is ensuring that medical graduates are equipped with the knowledge, skills and confidence to prescribe safely and accurately. Studies by the GMC have indicated that new doctors are often poorly prepared for prescribing and that First and Second Year Foundation Doctors prescribe with error rates of 8% … Continue reading “Ensuring prescribing competency in medical graduates using SCRIPT (Vera Kubenz, SCRIPT team)”
Higher Education, 2026 (Jagdish Singh Sohal)
Jag’s post can be viewed in full here. Source: Education, 2026… [brain dump]
Bioscience students value campus based formats, including lectures and lecturers who also research, but they expect interactive and engaging teaching making use of the latest technology
The School of Biosciences Student Staff Committee had a short breakout session to join in with the Big Conversation. There were 14 students from all four undergraduate years in Biosciences. This is what our student reps said: In 10 years time We will still have face-to-face lectures We will still learn from active researchers and … Continue reading “Bioscience students value campus based formats, including lectures and lecturers who also research, but they expect interactive and engaging teaching making use of the latest technology”
Where in the World? Promoting diverse destinations for student mobility (Claire Belkadi)
By 2026 Birmingham students will thrive by discovering new cultures, learning new languages and travelling to more varied academic locations. Our network of global university partners is one that offers a great diversity of destinations, offering opportunities to study in all five continents of the globe, including Japan, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Sweden, Israel, Chile, Ghana … Continue reading “Where in the World? Promoting diverse destinations for student mobility (Claire Belkadi)”
Our 2026 Global Education Offer (Erica Arthur, International Relations)
The case for study abroad is increasingly compelling. Mounting political, economic and societal pressures assert the urgency of globally-connected and interculturally-aware citizens. Since 2011-2012 outgoing study abroad participation rates at UoB have increased by 63% — with 576 students (8.5% of the undergraduate cohort) studying abroad in 2016/17. In the next ten years we can … Continue reading “Our 2026 Global Education Offer (Erica Arthur, International Relations)”
The Big Conversation – Student Views
Kathy Armour and Chris Wilkinson spent some time on campus talking with students to understand what they think a UoB education will look like in 2026.
Intensive courses as learning models (Hugh Houghton, CAL)
At the School Away Day today, Prof. Kathy Armour spoke of the challenge made at a recent meeting by a banking executive for the University to change in order to address the expectations of Generation Z with regard specifically to choice and involvement. This prompted the thought: How do businesses engage in training? Indeed, how … Continue reading “Intensive courses as learning models (Hugh Houghton, CAL)”
Education in Ten Years’ Time – by the School of Physics and Astronomy’s Student Reps
In 10 years’ time, technology will have a much greater role in the way we learn. All students will be loaned tablets for the duration of their degree, which are optimised for their degree subject. Assessed problems can be submitted, marked and returned online, meaning people can easily access their feedback. This will also remove … Continue reading “Education in Ten Years’ Time – by the School of Physics and Astronomy’s Student Reps”
A Personalised Feedback Cycle (By Caroline Hetherington and Louise Fearn)
When we talk about ‘Assessment and feedback’ we are often linking a set of feedback to an individual assessment. By doing this we create a separate feedback cycle for each piece of work, or taught module. This opens up the student journey to inconsistency in advice, experience and therefore progress across the different modules in … Continue reading “A Personalised Feedback Cycle (By Caroline Hetherington and Louise Fearn)”