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First introduced at Aberdeen in 2022, TESTA is an innovative method of programmatic review which maps Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs), assessment and feedback practices across a degree programme (UG / PGT). Developed with flexibility in mind and facilitated by the Centre for Academic Development (CAD), TESTA can be tailored to…

When was the last time you were given a grade for a piece of work? For us, since embarking on our first ‘proper’ jobs more than two decades ago, the answer is never. We have received feedback, guidance, support, and constructive criticism, but never a grade.

It was a step…

Research funded by AdvanceHE (Jan – July 2024) and led by the University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with Edinburgh Napier University, Heriot-Watt University and the University of Dundee, indicated:

All existing Fellows and Senior Fellows of Advance HE are eligible to undertake a short CPD session and become a Mentor under the University of Aberdeen ABDN: PRS Scheme.  The ABDN:PRS Scheme is experiencing high demand as more colleagues from across the University realise the benefits of gaining professional recognition…

I’m often asked for advice around developing/scaling online programmes/courses and what I’m going to write is based my personal experience and views that I have developed over a period of almost 20 years – it’s scary to think how quickly time flies.

My first experience of online began at the…

The Online Etymology Dictionary defines resilience as with the following timelines “1620s, "act of rebounding or springing back," often of immaterial things, from Latin resiliens, present participle of resilire "to rebound, recoil," from re- "back" (see re-) + salire "to jump, leap" (see salient (adj.)). By 1824, the physical sciences field defined resilience as "elasticity, power of returning to original…

According to the Universities UK, in 2020, 20.7% of the student population in the UK will be international. The figure below shows that international postgraduate students outnumber their undergraduate counterparts by three times. Since then, the numbers have grown to the largest ever recorded; the Universities UK opine that this…

The University of Aberdeen Annual Academic Development Symposium ‘Global Communities: Building Communities and Improving Collaboration’ in May 2022 was once again a huge success. This year, it was a genuinely hybrid event, with speakers and participants on-line and in person, with excellent colleague support to ensure that all were involved. …

As part of the greater Contemporary Spirituality umbrella, I ask if holding a space for the spiritually questing within an extremely inclusive Shamanic practice would be welcomed?

In the spirit of celebrating diversity, I believe that the answer is YES.

Shamanism – a rose with many names

I believe Shamanism…

In commemoration of this year’s black history month, I have been invited to write this blogpost and I am pleased to do so.  I am a qualified barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and an Energy Law Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. The focus of this…