The workshop series International Dialogue on Education Berlin is a joint initiative of the British Council Germany, the German Academic Exchange Service, the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Australian Group of Eight and the Canadian Bureau for International Education in Berlin.
Through the contributions of international participants the series aims to enrich the debate on science, research and higher education policy in Germany, to place German perspectives in a global context and to learn from positive examples from other countries.
Further Reading
UK
Postgraduate Education
eSharp
The University of Glasgow 's award winning postgraduate journal
The Robert's Report: Set for Success
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/ent_res_roberts.htm
The Joint Statement of Skills Training Requirements
Produced in 2001 by the UK Research Councils in collaboration with UK GRAD and the HE sector to identify the competencies that a postgraduate student should have at the end of their PhD.
www.grad.ac.uk/...Statement.pdf
UKGRAD
Umbrella Graduate Training Programme with UK wide remit, with new researcher development organization, VITAE, launched in Summer 08
www.grad.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/p!eecddL
Phipps, Alison 'Making Academics: Work in Progress' in Barnett, R. (ed.)
Reshaping the University: New Relationships between Research, Scholarship and Teaching. 136-150, Buckingham: Open University Press/McGraw Hill.2005.
University Teaching
Summative evaluation of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (TQEF)
A report to HEFCE by The Higher Education Consultancy Group and CHEMS Consulting
Freeing the Chi of Change:The Higher Education Academy and Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Trowler, P., Fanghanel, J. & Wareham, T. (2005) Studies in Higher Education, 30 (4) [427-444].
The National Student survey:
Students continue to be very satisfied with teaching and give higher rating to learning resources
www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2006/survey.htm
Review of aspects of Teaching Quality Information in England
www.qaa.ac.uk/reviews/institutionalAudit/TQIreport/TQIReport06.pdf
