Over the coming four months, 16 universities from across the world will take part in the 2025 Teaching Cultures Survey (TCS). The TCS is a global collaboration between research-intensive universities that are actively engaged in improving the reward of university teaching in academic careers. The short survey captures the experiences and perspectives of the university’s academic community, offering insight into how institutional policies and activities designed to improve the reward of university teaching are embedded and experienced in practice. The TCS also enables universities to benchmark their findings and progress against peer research-intensive institutions worldwide.
Further information on the survey is available here: https://teachingcultures.com
The Global Mapping report has just been released, offering insights into the evolving landscape of how university teaching is supported, evaluated and rewarded in academic careers. Drawing on interviews with over 130 leaders and change-makers from 26 countries, the report highlights how institutions are reshaping reward systems worldwide. The report is structured in two sections: Section A maps the global movement for change and identifies universities recognised as 'front-runners' in the field; Section B examines how these institutions are addressing key barriers to change. The study was co-funded by a consortium of universities, including Aalborg University (Denmark), King's College London (UK), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), LSE (UK), NTNU (Norway), Utrecht University (Netherlands), and PUC (Chile).
Read the report here: https://www.advancingteaching.com/mapping/
A new study to map the global movement for change to the reward of university teaching has been underway since November 2023. This study is now complete and the report will be available as open access resources on this website in January 2025. Further details of the study are given here: https://www.advancingteaching.com/mapping/
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the 2024 Advancing Teaching meeting, held at King's College London on 24th and 25th October 2024. This was a wonderful event that brought together 55 participants from 14 countries with a shared mission to improve the reward of university teaching in academic careers. Further information on the meeting is given here.
Following requests from members of the Advancing Teaching community, three key graphics from the Career Framework for University Teaching are now available for download as pdfs with editable text. Please feel free to use and edit these graphics in any way that supports the development and reward of university teaching in your own career or the careers of others in your institution or region (including university policy documents and other support materials). The open source graphics are available here.