Meetings of the university partners
Fouth university partners' meeting, May 2019
The fourth university partners' meeting was held on 13th and 14th May 2019 at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London. 50 participants from 14 countries (representing 29 universities) participated.
Day one explored the drivers for change and the key steps in the institutional reform process, as identified by the Roadmap for Change study, including the challenges and opportunities often faced.
Day two focused on three specific topics identified by participants as being of particular interest: (i) aligning institutional reward systems with individual career development and appraisal; (ii) evaluating the impact of reform; and (iii) integrated approaches to changing reward and recognition systems. The interim findings from the 2019 Teaching Cultures Survey were also presented.
Third university partners' meeting, April 2018
The third university partners' meeting was held on 19th April 2018 at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London, the day before the Framework was launched on 20th April. 37 participants from 12 countries participated.
The agenda was structured around four key dimensions of the change process:
- building and maintaining consensus for change;
- reforming academic appointment and promotion systems;
- instituting change outside the formal university promotion system;
- sustaining improvements in the recognition and reward of teaching achievement.
Second university partners' meeting, April 2017
The second partners' meeting was held on Friday 28th April 2017 at the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) in London. The meeting was attended by representatives from 14 partner universities from 14 countries.
The meeting aimed to:
- discuss ambitions and experiences regarding the reform of university promotion and career development systems to better evaluate and reward teaching achievement
- support the development of an international community of dialogue between change leaders striving to improve the recognition of university teaching
- help improve the Career Framework for University Teaching for the evaluation of teaching achievement in university appointment, promotion and professional development systems
First university partners' meeting, February 2016
On Thursday 25th February 2016, representatives from ten of the partner universities met at the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) in London. They were joined by a small group of individuals with particular expertise in the evaluation and recognition of university teaching, many of whom acted as external reviewers during the development of the draft Framework.
The meeting aimed to:
- establish an international community of dialogue between individuals and institutions striving to improve the recognition of university teaching
- discuss experiences and share ideas for reforming university promotion systems, as well as provide specific feedback about the Career Framework for University Teaching
- pave the way for broader cross-institutional agreement about the recognition of teaching, such that these achievements could be ‘portable’ and recognised between universities in a similar way to research achievements
Career Framework for University Teaching, 2024