The University will reward staff excellence in teaching through a three stage professional development process. For new and occasional teachers, support includes classroom preparation modules and a postgraduate certificate in teaching practices. For existing staff, professional development and scholarly targets in teaching are set through annual performance reviews.

1. How will the University reward staff excellence in Learning and Teaching?Three stage process to support professional development: for those people who are new to teaching who are not working as part of the core teaching staff of the University but as part of another job, for example, be it a demonstrator, be it a technician, be it a post-graduate student etc. We think it’s fundamentally important to help those individuals prepare for the classroom and a new module is developed for them For new staff, the revamped Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice, available from September, about teaching practice and the innovations taking place in HE Teaching For existing staff, who’ve been with us for a number of years, professional development in teaching and scholastic development in teaching. As part of performance review process, people will talk through with their reviewer the sorts of scholastic developments they wish to engage in and the targets that they wish to set themselves.