Global initiatives

Global initiatives aimed at informing and fostering positive change in higher education. The outputs from these initiatives are typically published in the public domain, and most are made available on an open-source basis – freely available for use, adoption or adaptation by anyone in the global higher education community. Examples of recent global studies are provided below.

Educational change in universities worldwide

Initiatives focused on benchmarking and evaluating educational change. Other projects include: (i) the factors driving engineering education reform in Chile (here); and (ii) the strategies associated with effective educational change (here).

Sponsored by a university consortium

The impact of COVID-19 'emergency teaching' on global practices in engineering education

Sponsored by MIT

The global state of the art in engineering education

Sponsored by MIT/Skoltech

Review of effective strategies to build university-based entrepreneurial ecosystems

Reward and recognition of university teaching

The Advancing Teaching initiative, led by Dr Graham, brings together a suite of projects that aim to improve the reward of university teaching in academic careers worldwide. Three components of this initiative are outlined below.

Sponsored by a univeristy consortium

Mapping the global movement for change to the reward of university teaching

Sponsoed by participating universities

Tracking the impact of changes to the ways that teaching is rewaded in academic careers

Sponsored by RAEng

A framework for the evaluation of teaching achievement during academic appointment, promotion and professional development

Targeted Support

Targeted advice, support and research for individual organisations engaged in strategic review, reform and horizon scanning. The outputs from such projects are typically not published in the public domain. Examples of recent targeted support projects are provided below.

Stanford University (US)

2023

Eindhoven University of Technology

2014/15 & 2019/20

Olin College of Engineering (US)

2016/17 & 2022/23

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Chile)

Ongoing from 2013

KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network)

2018–19

University College London (UK)

2014–18

Other targeted support has included: review of Skylab at the Technical University of Denmark (here); an evaluation of global university ranking systems for Skoltech (here); and a briefing paper on measuring success in university entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge exchange for Oxford University.

Global Studies

National and international research/review studies aimed at informing and inspiring positive change in higher education. The outputs from these studies are typically published in the public domain. Examples of recent global studies are provided in the links below.

Educational change in universities worldwide
Reward and recognition of university teaching

Targeted Support

Targeted advice, support and research for individual organisations engaged in strategic reform and horizon scanning. The outputs from such projects are typically not published in the public domain. Examples of recent targeted support projects are provided in the links below.

Other targeted support has included: review of Skylab at the Technical University of Denmark; an evaluation of global university ranking systems for Skoltech; and a briefing paper on measuring success in university entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge exchange for Oxford University.

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