Half of the University’s faculties have offered the opportunity to apply for recognition as an excellent teaching practitioner or similar for several years. A framework is now being introduced that represents a more fundamental and thorough concept of how the entire University is to work with educational qualifications by recognising and valuing the great effort that teaching staff put into development work, their own teaching expertise and delivering the attractive programmes and courses that the University offers in the best way possible. The new framework specifies four levels, something increasingly commonplace in European universities, thereby bringing us into line with the international standards found in higher education career paths. The features that characterise these four stages are familiar from the teaching and learning in higher education work carried out around Europe.
The international adaptation that the new framework represents is part of the pioneering work among Swedish universities that places Lund University at the forefront when it comes to development in teaching and learning in higher education.
There are various ways of acquiring further qualifications in the four stages, courses being one of them. The teaching practitioner’s educational work is to be discussed in the annual staff appraisal in order to support their professional development.
I am proud and happy that LU is now introducing a sophisticated qualification system to promote the development of teaching and learning in higher education which will ultimately benefit students – naturally our most important goal.
/Anki Wallengren
Read more
- Earlier LU News article Excellent teaching is to be highlighted through recognition of educational qualifications
- The report: Final report on Educational Development and Recognition at Lund University (pdf, 2.42 MB).
- The frame work in Swedish: Universitetsgemensamt ramverk för högskolepedagogisk meritering och karriärvägar.pdf
