National Awards
Grants and Fellowships for Learning & Teaching Continue in 2012

Senator the Hon Chris Evans has announced the establishment of the Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) to support learning and teaching in higher education. The Office for Learning and Teaching has funding of $50 million over four years to promote excellence in higher education learning and teaching.

The Minister has accepted the 17 recommendations of the review conducted by Alison Johns of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

A Strategic Advisory Committee will provide guidance and advice to the Minister to help shape the strategic directions of the Office for Learning and Teaching and to set priorities for the grants and fellowship schemes.

Program information and closing dates, further information on this announcement and Ms John’s report is available at the Office for Learning and Teaching website. Information on previous grants, fellowships and awards programs, including resources and reports, is available through the ALTC website. A summary of recently completed projects and resources may be found here.

SPARKPLUS Workshop

Self and peer assessment tools for the assessment of teaching awards and citations processes.

The NSW Promoting Excellence Initiative (PEI) Network is hosting an event open to all NSW institutions:

Date:	Wednesday 16 May
Time:	1:00pm - 4:00pm (registrations from 12:45pm)
Venue:	UNSW - Matthews Building, Level 4, Workshop Room
Presenter:	Dr Keith Willey, 2010 ALTC Teaching Fellow from UTS
Registration:	Email Sabina Hussain (s.hussain@unsw.edu.au) Please note Sabina will be out of the office until 23 April

Dr Keith Willey will present on the use of SPARK^PLUS - self and peer assessment tools for the assessment of teaching awards and citations processes. The presentation will also cover the use of Spark for dealing with the other issues of assessment, formative and summative in group work.