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NSS Issues for GEES: enhancing the student experience, effective feedback and related issues

3rd November 2010

School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester 9.30am – 4pm

We would like to invite contributions to our forthcoming GEES Conference “NSS issues for GEES”

The NSS (National Student Survey) is part of the HE landscape, giving us a number of years of activity to reflect on. The NSS raises a range of student experience issues, not least assessment and feedback which is consistently rated low by students.

The GEES disciplines have a strong track record in providing diverse, active and relevant activities to engage and enthuse students. This event is an opportunity to share practice, approaches and to discuss strategies for enhancing the student experience.   

NEWSFLASH: Ten bursaries for attendance available (covering the day's fee of £25) to alumni of the GEES Early Careers Lecturers' Workshop (previously called 'New and Aspiring Lecturers' Workshop') between 2007-2010. Bursaries will be extended to registrants on a first come, first served basis: please let us know when registering if you have attended this workshop between 2007-1010.

Keynote Presentation - Where Next? Presentation and Discussion Professor Paul White, Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Sheffield.

Two weeks after the expected publication of the Browne Report and the Spending Review is an excellent point to look at the strategic issues that are facing learning, teaching and the student experience. The NSS is a measure that we have to contend with but what of the future? How about future demands for course tagging?  What about the experiences of taught postgraduates?

This will be an interactive session. There will be a short introduction but the focus will be a Q&A and discussion session where we can consider issues facing us for the next, potentially very challenging, five years.

Prof Paul White is the ideal person to lead this session. He has vast experience from his role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at Sheffield for 6 years and he is a member of the HEFCE's Teaching Quality and the Student Experience Strategic Advisory Committee, as well as co-Chair of the Higher Education Academy’s network of PVCs/DVCs in Learning and Teaching.

Call for papers NOW OPEN

Contributions can take the form of

Contributions are invited on the following inter-related themes:

The call for paper is now open. Please download an abstract submission form and email it to events@gees.ac.uk the deadline for contibutions is 13th September 2010.

Registration

Registration for this event is now open. Please download the registration form and email it to events@gees.ac.uk the deadline for registrations is 4th October 2010

 

If you require any further information please email events@gees.ac.uk

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