Teaching
The university is currently ranked by the Sunday Times University Guide as joint third in London for student satisfaction with teaching quality, covering the quality of lectures, assessment and promptness and usefulness of academic feedback. This is ahead of 17 other universities in the capital.
Teaching staff include a winner of the Times Higher Education Most Innovative Teacher Award and several National Teaching Fellows, a status which recognises exceptional teaching.
The university works with employers to help design and shape programme content with the aim of ensuring that teaching reflects developments in industry and students acquire the appropriate career skills.
Many of the university's programmes include placement opportunities. These were rated highly in the National Student Survey 2012, with the students’ positive response to ‘My placements have helped me to develop my skills in relation to my course’ eliciting 89%, the highest satisfaction rating in the UK for this part of the survey.
The univerity plays a regional role in training teachers, nurses, social care professionals and further education lecturers.
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“It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child’s interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)
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