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Shivangi Shah I started working as a Student Partner Ambassador at my university with my amazing colleagues, Fatima, Kyra, Mellisa, Lauren, Rifa, Matheesha and Afshan! As a part of my role, we had started to do research into SGD's and partnership mainly. While we had been conducting a lot of theoretical research, we were still
Lauren Nader As part of my Student Partnership Ambassador position at the University of Westminster, I recently had the amazing opportunity to attend the Students as Partners conference in Canada led by the International Students Overcoming War (ISOW) Scholarship Initiative in partnership with the UNHCR (the United Nations Refugee Agency), that was hosted at Wilfrid
Kyra Towards the end of the summer, myself and Huanyu got to attend the 2022 RAISE conference held at the University of Lincoln. The two-day conference was an opportunity for students, lecturers and academic staff to come together to reflect on the origins and impact of Student as Producer practice and hear about the project
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS *** Main round submission deadline extended to 2021-02-15 in response to popular demand! *** May 17 to June 10, 2021, on iLRN Virtual Campus, powered by Virbela … and across the Metaverse! Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Education Society, with proceedings to be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore® Conference theme:
There will be a series of online Induction workshops through Bb Collaborate for staff wanting to make an application for Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship or Senior Fellowship via the e-portfolio route. Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) provides experienced academics with professional recognition benchmarked against the UK Professional Standards Framework. Senior Fellows
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION AND ENHANCEMENT SCHEME FOR TEACHING (PRESTige) There will be a series of online Induction workshops through Bb Collaborate for staff wanting to make an application for Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship or Senior Fellowship via the e-portfolio route. Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) provides experienced academics with
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented with many challenges for students and staff working in Higher Education. Whilst some of the challenges may be unique to our position in the institution, there are some concerns that we all share – at the University of Westminster, we care about each other’s wellbeing and continuously strive to form
Westminster's Learning and Teaching Symposium 2020 - an update from the Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation (CETI) This year's Learning and Teaching Symposium, will now take place online. However it is possible that the date may move and CETI will keep you informed about this via Sharepoint and future editions of Westminster Weekly.
The 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2020) on June 21 - 25 2020 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA, will be an innovative and interactive gathering for a burgeoning global network of researchers and practitioners collaborating to develop the scientific, technical, and applied potential of immersive learning. It is
On Friday 25th October Dr Celia Popovic, Associate Professor from York University, Toronto, Canada facilitated a workshop on the use of LEGO as a teaching resource. The aims of the workshop were to: • Discuss the creative cognitive process as a tool for supporting student learning and skill development; • Demonstrate strategies for incorporating
