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Postgraduate Teaching Coordinators Meeting 2 nd July 2012

Postgraduate Teaching Coordinators Meeting 2 nd July 2012. Agenda. Updates Attendance at Learning and Teaching Courses Teaching Induction sessions SET and PGRs AOB. Postgraduate Teaching Award 2012. Winners Sam Beatson – School of Contemporary Chinese Studies

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Postgraduate Teaching Coordinators Meeting 2 nd July 2012

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  1. Postgraduate Teaching Coordinators Meeting2nd July 2012

  2. Agenda • Updates • Attendance at Learning and Teaching Courses • Teaching Induction sessions • SET and PGRs • AOB

  3. Postgraduate Teaching Award 2012 Winners Sam Beatson – School of Contemporary Chinese Studies Helen Wainwright – Dept of Art History Peter Watts – Dept of Theology and Religious Studies Highly Commended Rebecca Harper – Dept of German Studies Jeannie Holstein and Shelley Clark – Nottingham University Business School

  4. Attendance at L&T Sessions 2011/2012

  5. L&T Sessions • Available on Central Short Courses • Majority of courses open to postgraduate research students • Free • Usually half day sessions • PGRs receive training credits for attendance at the majority of sessions

  6. Non-attendance questionnaire • 234 PGRs sent questionnaire • 94 responded (40%) Some comments received: ‘I wrote it in the wrong place in my diary. I am working at being more organised with planning my time.’ ‘I did not realize I had a place booked.’ ‘I woke up ill this Monday and was feeling too weak to attend. It was a cold.’ ‘Was booked at the same time with another course I am auditing.’ ‘Was booked for a supervising meeting at the same time, and was informed in the same morning.’ ‘I wake up very late on that day due to lack of sleep the day before.’ ‘Alarm clock failed to ring.’ ‘All apologies for not being able to come, but I completely forgot about it.’ ‘TOO BUSY TO CHECK EMAILS.’

  7. School-based courses • Chemistry – Small Group Teaching, Demonstrating • Physics – Marking and Assessment, Demonstrating • Vet School – Demonstrating • Pharmacy – Demonstrating • Engineering - Marking and Assessment, Demonstrating

  8. Summary • 963 pgrs attended 78 L&T sessions in 11/12 • Schools vary widely in how they utilise the training • On average 22% of booked places are not attended • Majority of pgrs only miss 1 session, but 15 did miss more than 3 • Sessions can be run within schools if required • Any questions???

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