Date: 6 May 2014
Start Time: 12:15 pm
Location/venue: The Higher Education Academy, Innovation Way, York Science Park, Heslington,York, England, YO10 5BR

This seminar will provide an opportunity to launch a report that looks at enhancing the understanding of the impact on learning and teaching of the recent significant changes in UK higher education policy. More...

Date: 7 May 2014
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: London School of Economics

Building on the Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) Professional Development Programme which took place during 2013, the Higher Education Academy is now running 8 practitioner-focused events. More...

• Date: 7 May 2014
• Start Time: 10:30 am
• Location/venue: College Court Conference Centre, University of Leicester, Knighton Road, Leicester, LE2 3UF

This seminar will disseminate the findings of an HE Academy Teaching Development project, completed in July 2013, which produced online teaching resources, developed from student and employer case studies, about how employability and other transferable skills can be nurtured in doctoral programmes in ways that contribute to knowledge transfer in the workplace. This seminar will be of interest to those working in a wide range of doctoral programmes and those setting up practice oriented doctorates. More...

Date: 9 May 2014
Start Time: 09:00 am
Location/venue: Michael Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University, Rivermead Campus, Chelmsford, Bishop Hall Lane, Cambridge, CB1 1PT

Employability is recognised as:

“A set of achievements, understandings and personal attributes that make individuals more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen career, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy”. (Yorke, 2004)

In addition to subject specialist knowledge, employability is important to ensure a good supply of highly-skilled employable graduates to provide excellence in teaching, health care and resilient leaders for the future. More...

Date: 12 May 2014
Location/venue: Bristol University

The workshop is designed for people interested in developing whole institutional approaches to ESD in the curriculum– or embedded ESD more broadly than at present within their institution. More...

Date: 14 May 2014
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: Room SW407 Aston University, England

Making internal recognition decisions support workshops will be used to offer support, guidance and development to those who are involved in making and/or supporting the assessment process within an institution’s Continuing Professional Development scheme. This is for those institutions who have, or are looking to develop, a CPD scheme which is accredited by the HEA. It will provide an opportunity for those involved in making recognition decisions within institutions to explore the UKPSF and evidence that may be presented against it. More...

Date: 14 May 2014
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England, M13 9PL

Increasingly postgraduate work in the performing and visual arts can be described as interdisciplinary, and there is significant ‘cross-over’ from art into performance and vice versa. This HEA workshop focuses on issues surrounding learning & teaching postgraduates in the performing and visual arts, and provides a forum to raise and discuss issues and concern, to share ideas and practices, and to inform future developments. More...

Date: 15 May 2014
Start Time: 10:30 am
Location/venue: The Studio Manchester

Student engagement in higher education has fundamentally changed in recent years. There is now an increased emphasis placed on the student voice, with the role of staff becoming more integral to this growth. More...

Date: 19 May 2014
Start Time: 10:30 am
Location/venue: Online via Blackboard Collaborate. Joining instructions will be sent to registered attendees nearer the time.

This online event will provide colleagues with the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with HEA Social Sciences staff and colleagues from other higher education providers. The event will begin with an overview of current and future HEA Social Sciences work. Following this, attendees will be able to move to breakout rooms for smaller, discipline-focused group discussions. More...

Date: 21 May 2014 - 22 May 2014
Start Time: 01:00 pm
Location/venue: The Studio, Birmingham
HEA Social Sciences annual learning and teaching conference
For further details please see http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/social-science-conference-2014. More...