Huddersfield is finalist in the Global Teaching Excellence Award
The Global Teaching Excellence Award celebrate universities that can demonstrate “institutional strategies and commitment to the delivery of world-class teaching”
CLOSE on the heels of its Gold Award in the national Teaching Excellence Framework, the University of Huddersfield is now shortlisted as a finalist in the new Global Teaching Excellence Award.
The Global Teaching Excellence Award (GTEA) are administered by the Higher Education Academy, the national body for teaching excellence, and partnered by leading HE journal, Times Higher Education.
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The award was open to any provider of higher education across the globe and are designed to celebrate universities that can demonstrate “institutional strategies and commitment to the delivery of world-class teaching”.
The Higher Education Academy received entries for the new award from across the world and just 27 universities, including the University of Huddersfield, were shortlisted as finalists. The 27 comprise 16 universities from the UK, five from Australia and one each from Canada, Hong Kong, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland and The Netherlands.
The overall winner will be announced at a gala awards evening to be held at Church House Westminster in London on 4 September.
Gold Award for Teaching
The GTEA announcement comes on the back of successes in the recent Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) for the University of Huddersfield and an excellent showing in the National Student Survey.
The new Teaching Excellence Framework was developed by the Department of Education in England through the Higher Education Funding Council for England to provide information to prospective students about the quality of teaching when choosing a university. Each institution received either Gold, Silver or Bronze level status.
A total of 299 higher education providers, including colleges, took part in the survey, and the University of Huddersfield was one of just 59 to achieve the top Gold Award, and became one of only two ‘Gold universities’ in Yorkshire.
Huddersfield was one of just 59 to achieve the top Gold Award, and became one of only two ‘Gold universities’ in Yorkshire
The University had cause for further celebration this week when results were announced from the annual National Student Survey. The survey is designed to solicit feedback from all final-year students in the UK about their respective universities and their courses.
In one of the major categories, which explores students’ assessment and feedback from teaching staff, nearly 80 per cent of Huddersfield students recorded highly positive verdicts on the assessment and feedback they had received. The excellent showing lifted the University into second place nationally in this category, just one percentage point behind the institution at number one.
The University of Huddersfield’s Pro Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, Professor Christine Jarvis, was delighted with the result: “Students really appreciate the opportunity to discuss their work with tutors, and rapid and constructive feedback on coursework is well established as a key component of courses at Huddersfield.”