There is a clear growing demand and need for learning that fits around people’s personal commitments and everyday lives, that is less ‘time demanding’, and ultimately, more flexible. We know our learning needs to be accessible and inclusive and we want to ensure our...
Dr Miriam Firth, Academic Lead for Assessment within our Flexible Learning Programme, explores why we need Flexible Assessment.
Flexible Learning is about providing an ambitious and forward-looking strategic vision for the future of teaching and learning at The University of Manchester. Despite the darkness of the pandemic, I do often talk about the “slivers of silver” that we might glean from...
Warning: The following article discusses themes relating to student suicide. If that is not a topic for you then thanks for clicking through and you may prefer instead to read about our support for students elsewhere on Staffnet.There has been a lot of media coverage...
In partnership with the Students’ Union, we have moved from a zero-tolerance to a harm reduction approach to drugs and alcohol. We will be running our University’s first harm reduction campaign from the 30 May 2022.
The past year has been a real whirlwind for us all. With your help we shifted our direction of travel for teaching and learning at The University of Manchester towards a future blended and flexible model with the ‘First steps to flexible learning’ paper. From there we...
With Advance HE recently celebrating more than 100,000 D2 Fellowships (and 155,000+ of all Fellowship categories), Professor Judy Williams, Associate Vice-President for Teaching, Learning and Students shares her reflections on the wide-ranging impact of the Fellowship programme she leads on staff and students.
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