Higher Education Academy Subject Centres
The Higher Education Academy provide subject-specific support for enhancing the student learning experience through their nationwide network of 24 Subject Centres which are located in higher education institutions and engage in a wide variety of activities to support academics, departments and institutions. They aim to promote high quality teaching and learning, encourage the exchange of good practice, and disseminate innovative and tested approaches.
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As one of the partners in the tangible benefits project, it was through the Higher Education Academy's subject centre network that the 16 institutions and 37 project case studies were identified. As well as using the main navigation bars to enable access to case studies by institution, by section and by the main themes each case study illustrates, this page also provides access to via the eight subject centres that worked closely with the project team, shown below. You can also access them based upon the JISC e-Learning Activity Areas or download the printable version.
Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance (BMAF) actively promotes the importance of effective and innovative practice in learning and teaching within the policy agenda of business schools, departments, professional bodies and subject associations. They are assisted in this by a strategic partnership with the Association of Business Schools (ABS).
Economics aims to enhance the quality of learning and teaching throughout the higher education economics community by being an informed and independent voice on the experience of learning and teaching economics from the perspective of staff, students, alumni and employers.
Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV) and
Health Sciences & Practice (HSAP) work closely together to enhance the student learning experience in the health disciplines. The Centres are part of the HEALTH Network Group.
History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) has a key role of being a one stop shop for the subject communities for matters relating to learning and teaching. Their aim is to provide a comprehensive framework for the support and development of learning and teaching in History, Classics and Archaeology, addressing both the unique challenges confronting each discipline and those which they share.
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism (HLST) aims to create and support a vigorous educational practitioner network, identify and disseminate best practice in learning, teaching and assessment in the Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism areas and to encourage pedagogic research and the dissemination of outcomes.
Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS) has a mission to support and promote Philosophical, Theological and Religious Studies higher education in the UK, and to build on its culture of dialogue and reflection.
Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP) aim is to support teaching and learning within their subject areas, and to improve the student learning experience.
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A briefing paper and publication summarise the findings of the Tangible Benefits work.
The subject areas sampled are believed to be representative of their discipline and thus represent the subjects studied by 42% of the HE student body in 2005/06 (Source HESA 2006).
