The Lecturer's Guide to Quality and Standards in Colleges and Universities

A follow-up volume to Managing Teaching and Learning in Further Education and Higher Education, this text provides a guide to managing quality and standards from the lecturer's point of view. It covers key issues such as teaching, learning, student support, assessment, evaluation, course design, bidding for and managing resources, marketing and research.; Based on the model of lecturer as reflective practitioner, this book is intended to help enable the lecturer to make sense of the changing climate of quality control and academic standards. Its interactive design introduces stimulating ideas and suggestions for further reading and provides guidelines on issues of relevance to individual readers. Booknews Ashcroft (dean of the faculty of education, U. of West of England) looks at how college teachers can make sense of the changing climate of quality control and academic standards. She compares the role of lecturers, who manage the work of students, to that of middle managers in industry or commerce, and she discusses the management skills they'll need to develop and monitor standards. Chapters include quality in teaching and learning; student support; staffing and staff development; course design; marketing and recruitment; and research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) "As a follow up to the authors' Managing Teaching and Learning in Further and Higher Education (Falmer Press, 1994) this book provides the definitive and comprehensive guide to managing quality and standards from the lecturer's point of view. Based on the model of the lecturer as reflective practitioner, the readable style of this book enables the reader to make sense of the changing climate of quality control and academic standards. Its practical, interactive design introduces stimulating ideas and suggestions for further reading and point the way forward on issues of relevance to individual readers. Throughout the role of the lecturer is presented as that of manager of quality and standards. The authors do not pretend that there are easy solutions to the dilemmas lecturers face but the style of the book, particularly the inclusion of Enquiry Tasks (so popular with readers of the first book) enable the reader to explore issues raised in the context of their own work place. Issues raised include : teaching, learning, student support, assessment, evaluation, course design, bidding for and managing resources, marketing and research."--Résumé de l'éditeur This text discusses managing quality and standards from the lecturer's perspective, covering issues such as teaching, learning, student support, assessment, evaluation and course design. It is intended to help lecturers make sense of the changing climate of quality control and academic standards.