
The Business School gained free access to the Financial Times for all its students.

The School of Modern Languages have arranged Skype meetings with personal tutors for all year-abroad students.

The School of Music changed its feedback form so that 50% of it requires staff to suggest ways of achieving a higher mark

The School of Law has created more work placements and developed a Law Fair, bringing 39 employers onto campus.

The School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology has opened a Student Lounge with IT resources.

As a result of student feedback… the School of Biological Sciences is pioneering the peer adjustment of group marks to make group working fairer.

The School of Ocean Sciences has produced standard forms that appear on Blackboard for every assessment to give students clear information about deadlines, expected feedback dates and learning outcomes.

SENRGy has introduced two submission times per week to stop students submitting several pieces of work on the same day

The School of Psychology post assignment distributions onto Blackboard to let students know where they stand within the class.

The School of Computer Science provides a clearer marking criteria of each assignment based on a new template.

The School of Electronic Engineering has changed the names of the second year mathematics and analogue electronics modules to better reflect the module content.

The School of Social Sciences developed weekly Academic and Student-led study skills drop-in sessions.

The School of Linguistics and English Language put copies of good dissertations from previous years onto Blackboard.

The School of English Literature offers one-to-one oral feedback on all assessed work.

The School of Education has reviewed and reduced teaching practice workload (PGCE Secondary).
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The School of Creative Studies and Media has opened its editing suite until midnight in term-time.

The School of Lifelong Learning has developed an employer network and organises visits to potential workplaces.

The School of Philosophy and Religion is organising more staff-student social events.
Bangor University awards its first round of Higher Education Academy Fellowships
Congratulations to six Bangor academic staff who have been awarded Higher Education Academy Fellowships in the first round of applications to the Aberystwyth-Bangor Scheme for Recognising CPD in Teaching and Supporting Learning.
The Accreditation Panel, chaired by PVC Professor Oliver Turnbull, met on Friday 20th February and awarded Fellowship and Senior Fellowship respectively to:
Dr Frances Garrad-Cole, School of Psychology - Senior Fellowship (SFHEA)
Professor Morag McDonald, School of Biological Sciences – Senior Fellowship (SFHEA)
Mrs Peggy Murphy, School of Healthcare Sciences – Senior Fellowship (SFHEA)
Sian Lewis, Welsh for Adults Centre, North Wales - Senior Fellowship (SFHEA)
Dr Geraldine Crahay, School of Modern Languages – Fellowship (FHEA)
Dr Christie Margrave, School of Modern Languages – Fellowship (FHEA)
Professor Turnbull said: "This is the culmination of a great deal of activity, making us the only CPD Recognition Scheme in the UK to be run jointly between two institutions. It's terrific to see the first round of awardees, whose application forms seemed to be one round of wonderfully successful teaching innovation after another. I'm sure that we'll see many more submissions in the coming cycles – and with it a growing awareness and recognition of the incredible work going on (in many cases relatively un-noticed) across our institution. My congratulations to those from this round – Llongyfarchiadau! I look forward to seeing many more in future."
Sue Clayton, Head of Continuous Professional Development Teaching and Learning (CELT) said: “I am delighted to see these early strong successes coming through our scheme, particularly one coming through a Welsh Medium route. The CPD Recognition Scheme has been met with a great deal of positive interest since its launch in September 2014. A total of over 70 staff have attended the monthly initial inductions to the scheme, with an expected 50 more by the end of this year. I hope now that we have these trailblazers, those in the process of developing their applications will be encouraged!”
A writing workshop for those currently in the process of developing applications is being held on the 13th May – in time to support submissions for the next round: deadline Friday June 5th.
For further information contact celt@bangor.ac.uk
Publication date: 5 March 2015