Issues of Teaching and Learning, 4(9)

"Academic managers must learn to manage like a good teacher teaches".

Ramsden, P. (1998), Learning to Teach in Higher Education (p. 258).

What's Inside ITL

• What is a good teaching department?
  • What is a good teaching department? Survey Report
• Promoting Teaching & Learning at the Departmental Level
• Book Review
• Web Resources

The intellectual structure of the courses that students follow owes more to history, incremental growth, departmental power struggles, and – to an increasing extent – government and political priorities than to a considered attempt to devise and to justify a particular "selection from the culture" on educational principles.

(Universities Under Scrutiny, OECD, 1987, p.43)

The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) invites reader response . Responses advancing the scholarly debate of issues raised will be published in the Web version of that issue.