Credit Where It’s Overdue

By Rebecca Attwood, in Times Higher Education

It is a familiar lament: teaching excellence is doomed never to be rewarded as handsomely as research success – if at all. But some institutions are determined to tackle the pedagogical deficit. Rebecca Attwood reports.

We are proud of our reputation for teaching quality,” says David Mackintosh, deputy vice-chancellor of Kingston University.

“This is our primary focus as an education institution, so we are committed to recognising and rewarding excellent teaching, as well as research.”

But in doing so, he believes the university faces a challenge: finding fair and equitable criteria with which to assess top-quality teaching.

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