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CUSU Student Led Teaching Awards 2017

7 February 2017

Nominations are open for the Student Led Teaching Awards (SLTAs), which aim to recognise the exceptional contribution of teaching and non-teaching staff to education at Cambridge. The awards are entirely student-led and are organised by Cambridge University Students’ Union (CUSU). Students are encouraged to nominate an...

Applications are open for the Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund

14 November 2016

Applications for the 2016-17 funding round of the Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund are now open. Grants of £10,000-£20,000 are available to projects assisting with implementing innovative practice in teaching and learning. Read the full article here.

From local support to national success

10 November 2016

One of our most successful Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund case studies ‘Learning Together: Being, belonging, becoming’ has hit national news once again this week. Read the article in The Guardian. Amy and Ruth have responded to the article below: We are thrilled that the University of Cambridge is continuing to be...

Digital Strategy for Education

11 October 2016

The University has launched its new Digital Strategy for Education, which aims to provide a framework for the introduction of technology that supports teaching and learning.

Directors of Teaching Event 2016

7 October 2016

Thoughts on exams Whilst many people might think that the three-hour written paper is the traditional Cambridge way of examining, it is a relatively new innovation in this ancient University. The first written examination paper was created in 1800. Until that point examinations were oral examinations. The dissertation...

Pilkington Prizewinners 2016

23 June 2016

Last night we raised our glasses in toast to the Class of 2016: the biochemist, clinicians, computer scientist, engineer, geographer, historian, linguist, material scientist, philosopher, neuroscientist and social anthropologist – all of whom were being honoured by the University for their teaching. Sir Alastair Pilkington...

New: Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

12 May 2016

The Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is a collaboration between the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning and the Institute of Continuing Education . Course participants will develop enquiry-based approaches to engaging with educational challenges and contributing to improvements...

Katharine Hubbard wins national teaching award

10 May 2016

We are very pleased that Dr Katharine Hubbard has won the Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award from the Royal Society of Biology. This is an outstanding achievement and we are very happy for her. Katherine is a lecturer in Biological Sciences at the University of Hull, but was previously a Teaching Fellow...

Winners of the CUSU Student Led Teaching Awards announced

28 April 2016

The Centre offers warm congratulations to the winners of this year’s Student Led Teaching Awards, created to recognise the exceptional contribution from academic and non-academic staff to education at Cambridge. These individuals have been nominated by students on the grounds of their inspiration and support. Awards and...

"Prisoner is top crime student at Cambridge"

27 April 2016

The Centre is pleased to see national coverage on the inspirational and innovative Learning Together project run by Dr Amy Ludlow and Dr Ruth Armstrong in The Times. The article can be accessed here . Find out more about the Learning Together project, and how it encouraged collaborative learning in the prison environment...