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Registration open for Directors of Teaching and Senior Tutors Annual Event

8 August 2018

We hope that many of you will be able to join the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, Prof. Graham Virgo, to reflect on priorities for the new Education Strategy and to inform its further development. The theme for the afternoon will be 'Participation and Inclusion in the collegiate University'. Registration will remain open until Monday 17 September.

Digital Advocates Network event

8 June 2018

The Centre will be holding a networking event for the Digital Advocates, on 25 June 2018. This exciting event will be focused around a series of case studies presentations and small group discussions.

Teaching and learning course applications open!

24 April 2018

Applications are now open for two courses in teaching and learning in higher education, offered for 2018-19 by the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning. The Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is open to Cambridge staff (academics, postdocs and professional staff) who teach / support...

New CCTL position!

9 April 2018

The Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning is looking for a new colleague who will work as a member of a small team to investigate educational needs, design and deliver enhancement activities, and undertake and promote different approaches to teaching in order to improve undergraduate and postgraduate education at...

Pilkington Prize awards 2017

23 June 2017

Last night saw the 24th Pilkington Prize ceremony at Gonville and Caius College. 13 Prize winners were invited to enjoy drinks on the lawn before attending the ceremony itself in the Bateman Auditorium. Celebrations were concluded with a delicious three course dinner in the Hall. Thankfully, the weather held out and...

Inspiring students and colleagues to excel: Dr Dee Scadden wins Biochemical Society’s Teaching Excellence Award

26 May 2017

Dr Dee Scadden in the Department of Biochemistry has been named winner of The Biochemical Society’s inaugural Teaching Excellence Award . The award, created by the Biochemical Society to promote and celebrate excellent teaching in the discipline, is new for 2018 and will be awarded annually. Dr Scadden was the judges’...

Student-Led Teaching Awards ceremony

12 May 2017

The Student-Led Teaching Awards ceremony was held on 9 May in the University Combination Room. As Professor Graham Virgo, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education, observed in his opening address, the Student-Led Teaching Awards are special because they are ‘student-led, student-organised, student-voted, and student-decided’. The...

2017 Teaching Forum: More of this please!

28 March 2017

"All the talks I attended taught me things I didn't know and which I am glad to have learned" "I found the sessions were very interesting and inspiring. It was great to hear from people from different fields" Colleagues from across the collegiate University joined together last week at Churchill College for the Cambridge...

Teaching that Changes Lives: Cambridge academics receive Butler Trust Award

14 March 2017

Two Cambridge academics, Dr Ruth Armstrong and Dr Amy Ludlow, have received a prestigious Butler Trust Award for their innovative ‘Learning Together’ project in which prisoners at HMP Grendon and students at the University of Cambridge study together within the prison. The Butler Trust Awards, established in 1985...

Applications are now open for the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (2017-18).

8 March 2017

The course is for staff who teach and support learning of Cambridge University students. Taking an enquiry-based approach to exploring challenges in teaching and learning in Cambridge and beyond, the Postgraduate Certificate provides an opportunity to extend your understanding of how students learn extend your repertoire...