Evaluating training and development in UK universities: staff perceptions

11 Training and Development of International Staff

Alternative Medicine in UK Universities

Poppleton University made history when it decided to re-name its Department of Physics and Astronomy as the Department of Evidence-based Physics. This restructuring became necessary after the foundation of the new Department of Alternative Physics and Astrology. How did this come about? The Finance and Public Relations departments at Poppleton, with rare foresight, had spotted an opportunity to...

Complexities in Evaluating the Effects of Staff Development Programs

Because of increased emphasis on accountability, program evaluations today must go beyond measures of change in program participants to consider the effects, either direct or indirect, of staff development on students and their learning. A model is presented illustrating the relationship between staff development for teachers and student learning outcomes, and the external factors that influenc...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Developing Professional Staff in Universities under Quality Assurance Systems

Human resource capacity has become a critical issue for contemporary universities in enabling them to deliver multiple agendas in complex environments (Gordon & Whitchurch, 2007). In recent years, many governments have proceeded with deregulation and developed schemes to assure the quality of higher education. Today, universities have a greater autonomy under the new quality assurance systems b...