Author: Sarah Chan You Fee
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Westminster students reimagine university welcome experience in CETI project
CETI’s Transitions Project is a two-year endeavour funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust to improve transitions into higher education, which can be both exciting and overwhelming experiences for incoming Foundation and first-year students in particular.
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Celebrating Multilingualism at Westminster
Did you know that in 2021/22, there were 350,325 international students pursuing degrees in the UK according to the Higher Education Student Statistics (HESA)? Surprisingly, international students represented 22% of the total student population in the whole country (Universities UK).
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Enhancing student group work
Author: Mick Healey. “This timely and comprehensive report synthesizes key scholarship on group work, resulting in an essential guide for supporting students working in teams in higher education. The report provides staff and academic developers with a nuanced analysis of both the benefits and challenges of group work, as well as strategies for teaching group…
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Reimagining the curriculum as social enterprise
Author: Andy Pitchford. Two men with big bushy beards have had a disproportionate impact on my academic career. While I am grateful for their influence, for reasons that I will now explore, I am occasionally troubled by the beards themselves.
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Reimagining the curriculum as a circular economy
Author: Andy Pitchford. One of the more depressing moments of my academic career was on a July Friday, in the midst of a long, hot summer sometime in the late 1990s. I had just taken the wrong door out of my department office, having had a very nice chat with the people there which had…