Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
There has not been a blog update for a while. This is because I became aware that edublogs, the company that hosts the blog, has been inserting advertisements into the text. Some of these inserts were not appropriate. As a result, we decided to move the blog to the Faculty servers. This has been done [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2008 No Comments »
I am going to take the opportunity of doing a final summary of our activity on teaching and learning for this year. It has been an incredible year for us and our Faculty has made great progress during this year. Our greatest challenge has been to implement the implement the review of undergraduate learning and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 25th, 2008 No Comments »
This has been a couple of weeks of meetings, most have been very important and I will update on the results of the relevant ones that I have attended.
We held a meeting of the Faculty undergraduate review implementation group and worked on implementing the review. The most important matter was discussing the introduction of academic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2008 No Comments »
It has been a while and probably too long between posts on the blog. My only excuse, if it can be put forward, is that I have been running round like an idiot trying to keep up with my jobs. You may be wondering about the title of this post, it is based on lyrics [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2008 No Comments »
You may remember that our last post was concerned with the build up to the annual operational performance review. This is an important part of the strategic and operational performance of the Faculty and we are are reviewed on our annual performance by a team led by the President. I am only going to provide [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Firstly I would like to welcome all our students back to the University, as this is the first blog since the start of term. I hope that you all had a good holiday break. We are all trying to make great changes in the way that you are being taught and I hope that you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Why the strange title for the blog? I was out at a party and as my wife is a teacher, the party was full of teachers (this can be my worst nightmare….). One of the teachers’ partners asked me if I taught and I said “No, I work for the University”…..Then I stopped, thought and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Well the long hot summer is drawing to a close and some of us are back at the University. This year my holiday was in Didsbury, South Manchester as we thought that it would be good to see England. Unfortunately, the weather put a dampener on that idea. So I went and bought and iPhone [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
This weeks blog is concerned with e-learning and the changes that have recently occurred in response to the development and publication of the University e-learning strategy.
But firstly I would like to congratulate two of our leaders in teaching. It was great news to hear that Caroline Boggis from the Medical School was made a Professor [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Following on from my last post… I am just back from holiday to the Wild West of America and I thought that I would illustrate the title of this post with a picture of me studying geography. I am standing at Dead Horse Point just outside Canyonlands National Park and looking at a drop of 2,500 [...]
